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Quality and Basic Biomedical Research

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In Chap. 3, we have seen how any organisation can apply a management model that follows total quality management principles and implement a quality management system with the aim of improving effectiveness and efficiency. International guidelines for certification and accreditation are dedicated to specific fields only and did not include basic scientific research at the time of their drafting. To effectively apply quality principles to this field, we need to find the relevant references and translate and transfer the terms and directions. Starting from the definition of quality in biomedical research and the citing of the most important references for that field, Chap. 4 illustrates how quality is applied in the running of scientific projects, giving directions and practical examples for most aspects of quality management, from organisation and documentation to physical resources and ethics.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Sect. 4.4.1.

  2. 2.

    See Sect. 4.4 below.

  3. 3.

    Rebecca L. Hegstad-Davies, Associate Professor, Director, Quality Central Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.

  4. 4.

    Widely known model by Belch&Belch.

  5. 5.

    See Sect. 4.5.5.1.

  6. 6.

    Cell Therapy Enterprise Technical Leader, GE Healthcare, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

  7. 7.

    The code is requested to be applied by contractors of DEFRA, the FSA, NE, VMD, AHVLA, MMO, Fera, FC, the UK Devolved Administrations, BBSRC and NERC.

  8. 8.

    www.therqa.com.

  9. 9.

    Head of the Servei de Qualitat de la Recerca, Quality Assurance Agency, Universitat de Barcelona.

  10. 10.

    See Sect. 4.3.1.2.

  11. 11.

    See Sect. 4.5.3.1 below.

  12. 12.

    See Chap. 2—Total Quality Management: The Requirements.

  13. 13.

    See Sect. 4.5.3.2.

  14. 14.

    See also [14].

  15. 15.

    ukrio.org.

  16. 16.

    See also Sect. 4.5.3.

  17. 17.

    See Sect. 4.5.5 below.

  18. 18.

    See Chap. 5—Design of Experiment.

  19. 19.

    See Sect. 4.5.3.2.

  20. 20.

    Albert Einstein, Letter on his 75th birthday, 1954, reported on his Memorial Statue at the National Academy of Science, Washington DC, USA.

  21. 21.

    San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy.

  22. 22.

    Antonella Bongiovanni, Marta Di Carlo and Luca Caruana.

  23. 23.

    See Introduction–Acknowledgements..

  24. 24.

    Francesca De Leo, Marinella Marzano and Caterina Manzari.

  25. 25.

    For Lean management and related tools, see Chap. 5—Lean Management.

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Lanati, A. (2018). Quality and Basic Biomedical Research. In: Quality Management in Scientific Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76750-5_4

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