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Analysis of the Concept of Quality of Life

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 1987
ABSTRACT. Nurses provide the constant human care that can make the difference between a life that is valuable to the last and a life that ends in humiliation, deprivation and suffering. Nurses, therefore, more than other health professionals, need a deep and reflective view of patients' value and quality of life.
U, Qvarnstrøm, M, Haugen
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Analysis of dependence of decision quality on data quality

Journal of Geographical Systems, 2008
GIS professionals seem to assume that better data lead to better decisions, but how does one decide when better data lead to a better decision? An analysis to determine the effects of data quality on the quality of decisions provides criteria whether to invest in data quality improvement.
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Quality of, and Quality Control of, Urolithiasis Analysis

1976
Good quality chemical analysis of renal stones is essential if clinicians are to base treatment on the chemical composition of the stones, and if high quality research is to be carried out. During the last 25 years many surveys have been made on the quality of clinical chemical analyses, and quality control techniques have been applied to many of the ...
P. Scott, D. J. Barford
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Quality Aspects of TMA Analysis

2010
The quality of a TMA experiment can only be as good as the worst step in the entire process. Making and analyzing of tissue microarrays (TMAs) is a complex process involving tissue sample acquisition and preparation, expert histological diagnosis, long-term collection of clinical data, development of suitable laboratory protocols, the microscopic ...
Pierre, Tennstedt, Guido, Sauter
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Quality adjusted survival analysis

Statistics in Medicine, 1990
AbstractWe present a technique, quality adjusted survival analysis, for the analysis of controlled trials where patients may experience several health states which differ in their quality of life. When the data are censored, a survival analysis of the quality adjusted life years achieved may involve informative censoring, and produce biased estimates ...
P P, Glasziou, R J, Simes, R D, Gelber
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Analysis of Statistical Data Quality

2014 Seventh International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2014
Statistical data quality refers to the accuracy of the statistics. Accurate and reliable statistics is the important basis for scientific decision and scientific management. Aiming at the phenomenon of some statistical dishonesty problem shown in this paper the causes of this phenomenon are briefly analyzed, and we put forward the measures to improve ...
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The Quality Analysis of Image Reproduction

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2000
The objective of image reproduction is, as used here, to reproduce visual information that is available in the original image. Undoubtedly, the colors of the individual pixels contain a huge amount of visual information and therefore the quality of the image reproduction is typically studied in terms of the quality of the color reproduction determined ...
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Criteria for the analysis of scientific quality

Scientometrics, 1995
One of the major questions in science research is addressed in detail, that is the problem of evaluation of research work both by objective characterization, accessible to proof, and by adequate characterization, referring to the content and cognitive level of the work under investigation. A short discussion of established methods by science indicators
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Concept Analysis of Quality of Life

Dimensions Of Critical Care Nursing, 1991
The term "quality of life" is being used to evaluate ethical cases in health care literature and practice, yet rarely is a precise definition of the term given. It remains an abstract and ambiguous phrase. This author clarifies the concept quality of life through concept analysis methods using critical care scenarios.
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Fingerprint quality and validity analysis

Proceedings. International Conference on Image Processing, 2003
Discusses methods to estimate the quality as well as validity of a fingerprint image. Orientation certainty is used to certify the localized texture pattern of the fingerprint images while ridge to valley structure is analyzed to detect invalid images. Global uniformity and continuity ensures that the image is valid as a whole.
Eyung Lim, Xudong Jiang 0001, Wei-Yun Yau   +2 more
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