The National Quality Forum issued guidance on reducing unnecessary variations in healthcare quality measures, with the aim of making measurement more consistent and useful in enhancing patient care. A ...

(HealthDay News) – A variation measure, estimated from an automated algorithm of the grayscale variation within a mammogram, correlates with the risk of breast cancer as strongly or more so than ...

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA LSD 63, "Measurement Methods and Performance Variation for Verification Testing of General Purpose Lamps and Systems" The ...

Step 1 Select between 20 to 30 test samples that represent the full range of variation encountered in actual production runs.

Background. Health adjusted life years (HALYs) are used for estimating burden of disease and as outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of medical care and public health interventions. Objectives. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is little uniformity in the way physicians measure disease activity in patients with juvenile idiopathic ...

Gage R&R is all about the integrity of your measurement system and its ability to capture the true values of what you are ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the reliability of the ‘gold standard’ Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), with that of the ocular response analyser (ORA), and the dynamic contour tonometer ...

Sexual minority groups report relatively more mental health issues than heterosexual people, and identifying sexual minorities through efficient survey questions helps bridge mental health disparities ...

As healthcare providers wade through hundreds of often burdensome reportable quality measures, a new National Quality Forum study offers guidance on reducing variation and repetition. In 2013, NQF ...