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Quality and Accountability in the ESRD Program

Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, 2001
The quality of care received by patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States has received considerable public attention during the past several years because of a number of social, economic, and political factors. There has been a lingering impression that the poorer survival of dialysis patients in the United States, compared with
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A program for software quality control

Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition on - AFIPS '74, 1974
The Automatic Data Processing Equipment Selection Office (ADPESO) of the Department of the Navy is engaged in a development program for software to be used in the quantification of computer systems selection criteria, and the application of quality control procedures to selected software products.
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Measuring programming quality and productivity

IBM Systems Journal, 1978
To a large extend, the units used to measure program quality and productivity tend to lead the mind along certain channels of thought. An analysis of the commonly used units of measure in programming has revealed deficiencies in some units that lead to incorrect and even to paradoxial conclusions.
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Quality Assurance and Program Development

2017
Interventions need to remain relevant, appropriate, and effective for the populations they aim to target. This chapter focuses on describing a quality assurance process that can be used by program developers to facilitate program innovation through a 10-stage research-and-development cycle.
Sanders, Matthew R., Kirby, James N.
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A Quality Factor for Measuring Program Efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 1978
Theoretical costs on general purpose algorithms have been suggested independently from the machine (computer). On an image processing task a computational cost, based on computing time, is introduced showing a discrepancy between theory and practice due to the dependence on computer architecture and programming language syntax.
F. Fusco, Stefano Levialdi, L. Ritondale
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Measuring quality in online programs

The Internet and Higher Education, 2003
This study investigates the distance education and information technology literature in an attempt to develop a model to measure quality and learning in online courses. The resulting model is the first proposed to address issues of flexibility, responsiveness, interaction, student learning, technical support, technology, and student satisfaction ...
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Quality Assurance and Program Evaluation

Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1983
Some commonforces have led to increased attention to quality assurance andprogram evaluation in the United States. However, these two types of public accountability have developed relatively independently, resulting in somewhat different but related approaches to examining health care.
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Quality Assurance and Prepaid Programs

Dental Clinics of North America, 1985
This article presents the concepts of quality assurance and the various mechanisms that are employed in quality assurance systems. The implications for quality assurance are discussed in relation to the major types of prepaid programs. Capitation dental plans have certain opportunities to engage in quality assurance, whereas indemnity plans face a more
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Merit, Quality, and the SIBR Program

Science, 1996
Letters from: [ Ralph A. Bradshaw ][1] [ Jon Baron ][1] [ Roy Laughlin ][1] [ Robert L. Whalen ][1] Jeffrey Mervis (News & Comment, [17 May, p. 942][2]) correctly notes that the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has raised serious concerns regarding the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Small Business ...
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High Quality Engineering Program Achievement

2018
Buildings and bridges are often the first constructions that come to mind, as they are the most visible creations of structural engineering. Civil engineers design roads, railways, subway systems and airports. And there are also less visible designs, just like every time people turn on a water tap waiting for the water to flow, without thinking that ...
Melany M. Ciampi, Claudio da Rocha Brito, Rosa M. Vasconcelos, Luís A. Amaral, Henrique D. Santos, Victor F. A. Barros   +5 more
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