Standardization is the sociological process of reducing diversity in existing custom devices or practices, according to norms acceptable to a larger community of citizens, engineers or scientists. Standardization may facilitate technology transfers, enhance consistency or safety, and produce economies of scale. Uncover the latest and most impactful research in Standardization. Explore pioneering discoveries, insightful ideas and new methods from leading researchers in the field.
Background Day-case hip and knee arthroplasty can reduce bed occupancy and improve cost-effectiveness, which is crucial for addressing the increasing demand among hip and knee osteoarthritis patients. This study investigated how different...
Objective EuroQol is developing the EQ-5D Bolt-on Toolbox, an experimental set of bolt-ons designed to improve the sensitivity of EQ-5D-5L in specific populations. For use in cost-utility analyses, EQ-5D-5L+bolt-on value sets should be consistent...
The ISO 15189:2022 standard establishes a global benchmark for medical laboratory quality and competence, emphasizing clear organizational responsibility, authority, accountability, and patient-centered risk management. In Nigeria, however,...
The increasing adoption of Industry 4.0 paradigms has highlighted the need for real-time, high-resolution data acquisition in manufacturing systems, particularly regarding human operator activities, which remain one of the least digitized elements...
Purpose of review Urodynamic studies (UDS) remain the gold standard for the objective evaluation of lower urinary tract dysfunction, yet their diagnostic precision is frequently compromised by technical inconsistencies, interobserver variability, and...
Healthcare interoperability between openEHR and HL7 FHIR remains challenging due to fundamental differences in data modeling approaches and the lack of standardized transformation mechanisms. This paper presents FHIRconnect, a novel domain-specific...
This study aims to expand the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (CDM) by linking in-hospital mortality data with national mortality statistics. Specifically, we developed a pipeline utilizing large language models (LLMs)...
Indian construction projects exhibit chronic time and cost overruns, with procedural infrastructure absences identified as one diagnostic factor. India has its own national construction project management standard, the twelve-part IS 15883 series...
Abstract The paper presents a conceptual framework, and a system of indicators designed to monitor and evaluate the current state and development potential of domestic digital products manufacturing for sector transformation. The framework...
An authorized medical device may still need outside capital before its sponsor, the firm responsible for it, can manufacture and launch it. The paper asks what public U.S. records can show about whether authorization timing relates to access to that...
This article examines how recordkeeping infrastructures mediate institutional continuity across the Ottoman, Republican and digital periods in Turkey. It asks how successive systems for creating, organising and mobilising authoritative records have...
While the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) has been a standard for many years, there is a large amount of historical thermophysical data reported on other scales. The differences of these scales from ITS-90 are typically small, but...
Background The award of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA)-waived status to automated semen analyzers, including the LensHooke (Bonraybio) and SQA-iOw (Medical Electronic Systems), has prompted substantive debate regarding analytic...
This paper presents a benchmark and a systematic empirical study for document layout analysis in administrative documents, motivated by the scarcity of region-level annotated datasets and the limited understanding of failure modes under real-world...
Abstract Actionable reporting in radiology is a concept that has gained traction since its inception in 2014. The notion is simple: radiology reports should easily translate into clinical action, particularly when the study is abnormal. This is not...
Harmonized cognitive measures are key to cross-national comparisons of dementia risk. However, validating such measures cross-nationally is challenging due to differences in cognitive measures and a lack of a reference standard. Age, a...
Background Timely risk stratification of ICU patients with bloodstream infection (BSI) is essential for guiding clinical decisions. Prediction models developed in Western populations may not generalize to other regions because healthcare systems,...
Background Suicide prevention policy in West Africa is based on mortality statistics whose empirical basis has not been quantified. Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are the standard source of suicide mortality data worldwide,...
Scientific academies play long-standing roles in scholarly recognition, science advice, public communication, and knowledge dissemination, yet comparable evidence about these organizations remains fragmented across open registries, institutional...
Accreditation and Quality Assurance (Accred. Qual. Assur.; "ACQUAL") publishes conceptual and practice-oriented articles on all aspects relevant to...
Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science(TIRS) publishes peer-reviewed original research, review articles, commentaries, and letters to the...
The International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Max Planck Institute...
