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Unannounced, compared with announced inspections: A systematic review and exploratory study in nursing homes

Health Policy, 2013
Politicians and regulators have high expectations of unannounced inspections. Unannounced inspections, unlike announced ones, would, they believe, lead to a clearer insight into the risks and a reduction of the regulatory burden. In order to verify these assumptions, a systematic review of the scientific literature and an exploratory study were ...
Klerks, MCJL   +2 more
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Optimal Fines under Announced and Surprise Inspections

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2015
AbstractThis paper examines optimal fines in a regulatory framework where the regulator can choose either surprise or announced inspections to monitor a firm for compliance. The firm can invest in detection avoidance, but it receives a fine if the regulator discovers that it is noncompliant.
Emmanuel Dechenaux, Andrew Samuel
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Announced or Surprise Inspections and Oligopoly Competition

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018
Abstract To enforce compliance, regulators often choose between announced or unannounced (surprise) inspections. We analyze the impact of these inspection regimes on firms’ compliance choices in a multiple stage oligopoly game of quantity competition with endogenous compliance, monitoring and avoidance.
Emmanuel Dechenaux, Andrew Samuel
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Optimal inspection and preventive maintenance policy for systems with self‐announcing and non‐self‐announcing failures

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to propose and model an inspection and preventive maintenance policy for randomly failing systems that alternate operating and idle periods according to their mission profile.Design/methodology/approachA maintenance policy is defined and modeled mathematically.
Anis Chelbi   +2 more
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Examination of the association between announced inspections and inspection scores.

Journal of environmental health, 2013
In 2010 the Salt Lake Valley Health Department conducted a pilot of an announced inspection program utilizing a randomized assignment of restaurants to an intervention group with announced inspections and a control group that remained on the usual schedule of unannounced inspections.
A Blake, Waters   +5 more
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Beneficial effects of implementing an announced restaurant inspection program.

Journal of environmental health, 2007
Announced inspections are being incorporated into restaurant inspection programs to support active managerial control; however, their effectiveness is unknown. The study reported here examined the results of 1314 inspections conducted from June 2001 through August 2003 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Kimberly A, Reske   +4 more
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AC 6513S: Announcement of Availability FAA Inspection Authorization Directory

1998
This advisory circular (AC) announces the availability of AC 65.13S, FAA Inspection Authorization Directory.
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To Announce or Not to Announce? A Study on the Impact of Unannounced School Inspections Through a Systematic Review and a Pilot Study in the Netherlands

This article presents the findings of an exploratory study by the Netherlands' Inspectorate of Education, which investigated whether unannounced school inspections can strengthen the quality and impact of educational supervision. Although inspections in the Netherlands are traditionally announced in advance, this study examines the potential ...
Mariëlle Klerks, Merel Spanier
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Announced vs. Surprise Inspections with Tipping-Off and Bribery

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Emmanuel Dechenaux, Andrew Samuel
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