Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology.

ABSTRACT: Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined by data quality. The mounting success of quality management in the industrial sector caused a rapid spread throughout manufacturing industries and beyond. Yet, little has been published so far on quality assurance in epidemiology. In this article we review three models for quality assurance (Juran, Donabedian and ISO 9000) and showcase how these can be brought together in one intuitive, systematic and flexible approach to quality assurance in epidemiology. The resulting Open Quality approach refers back to the three processes identified by Juran (planning, control and verification). During the planning stage, we propose a subdivision of the study process in a set of ste

SUBMITTER: Alba S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285770 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature