Recent draft guidance from FDA on contract manufacturing and quality agreements highlights the importance of such agreements and define the roles and responsibilities of each party to be in keeping ...

As pharmaceutical quality metrics evolve, they will need to incorporate more of the principles of operational excellence, says consultant Prabir Basu. For the past few years, to help pharmaceutical ...

A panel of key opinion leaders discuss how employers and self-funded companies should assess provider quality and value in cancer care at the 2020 Community Oncology Alliance Virtual Payer Exchange ...

Can quality be defined? Are there certain attributes that all deserving things have, or is it purely subjective? In this essay, The Wirecutter's Allison Gibson contemplates the wealth of reasons why ...

Allegion SVP and chief information and digital officer, responsible for IT and security, data and analytics, and digital programs globally. Quality is a broad term; one that is hard to define. Despite ...

We’re all frustrated by the high cost of US health care and a system that’s challenging for patients to navigate and does not consider patients’ goals and wishes. Both the public and private sectors ...

QOPI measures processes of care—one of the three components of quality, along with environment of care and outcomes of care (Donabedian A. JAMA 260:1743-1748, 1988). With a potentially fatal illness, ...

Total Quality (TQ) has emerged as a leading issue in the twentieth century. Recently, the principles of total quality have been applied to the field of technical communication. However, technical ...

This isn't the time in the cycle to take excessive risk. The easy money has already been made. Late-cycle economic forces combined with desynchronized global growth and a deteriorating earnings cycle ...