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Programs of regular assessment of medical and nursing activities to evaluate the quality of medical care including all actions taken to ensure that standards and procedures are adhered to and that delivered products or services meet performance requirements.
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The quality of nearness to the truth or the true value.
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A text-based format for storing a biological sequence that encodes the nucleotide calls as well as their quality scores. It is an extension of the FASTA format.
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The international quality-management standard for medical device manufacturing. Certification does not certify individual products, but suppliers with ISO 13485-registered production generally support tender documentation more reliably.
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The sample-preparation stage that lyses cells or virions and purifies DNA/RNA before amplification. Extraction quality (yield, purity, inhibitors removed) often limits assay performance more than the PCR itself, and it defines required instruments and hands-on time in a workflow.
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A score reported on a logarithmic scale representing the probability that a nucleotide base was incorrectly called by the base caller.
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Set of measurements and inspections taken to verify that performance of equipment and procedures remains within specified limits.
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A WHO assessment that confirms a diagnostic meets quality, safety, and performance requirements for procurement by UN agencies and many national programs. WHO PQ status is frequently a tender eligibility criterion for public-health deployment in low- and middle-income countries.
