单词 | quality assurance |
释义 | > as lemmasquality assurance quality assurance n. the maintenance of a desired level of quality in a service or a manufactured product, esp. by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or manufacture; abbreviated QA; cf. quality control n. ΚΠ 1940 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 35 (Centenary Membership Directory) 24/1 Dodge, Harold F., Quality Results Engineer, Quality Assurance Department, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. 1960 H. C. Thomson & L. A. Mayo Ordnance Dept.: Procurem. & Supply xiv. 329 One of the first steps taken..was to enlist the services of George D. Edwards, director of quality assurance of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, as consultant to the Ordnance Department. 1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry Jan. 48/2 An approach to quality assurance based on ‘laundry lists’ of services matched to problems has been criticized as being relevant only to improving the process of care and possibly irrelevant to improving the outcome of care. 1990 T. G. Wreghitt & P. Morgan-Capner ELISA in Clin. Microbiol. Lab. iii. 37 Quality assurance can be considered as the broad plan, within which the essential processes of quality control function to ensure that the plan is being adequately implemented. 1998 Educ. Rev. 12 ii. 39/1 Schools need a variety of user-friendly, reliable and valid data on the progress and development of all their pupils to guide self-evaluation and quality assurance efforts. < as lemmas |
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