Software Quality Assurance
Introduction
It is important that clinical software is evaluated to ensure both its accuracy and reproducibility. Software audits are used for benchmarking against National standards, internal validation of new software releases and training of operators within a site
The ANZSNM software quality assurance site allows users to:
- participate in an existing software audit
- setup and administrate their own audit or
- test their results against a training dataset
Each audit is identified by its scope, institution and dataset. In some cases the scope may be restricted. For example, to Countries, States, regions, hospitals etc.. You may participate in any audit, regardless of the scope. However, the person running the audit has the authority to either include or exclude your results.
You will need to download one of the datasets before you can participate
| Dataset |
Description |
| GBPS | GBPS |
| WWSF | Renal Split Function |
Participate
To participate in an audit/training session, firstly download the required dataset and process it using your clinical workstation software.
Before entering the results online, register with the appropriate audit. You will receive a unique operator code which can be used across multiple audits.
- Official Audits
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To participate in an official audit contact the person running the audit and give them your operator code so that your results are validated and included (this can be done before or after data entry).
- Training
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For the training datasets, participants are provided with instant reports comparing their data with the results in the (previous audit) database.
Administrate
You can initiate a new software audit (using the available online datasets) by lodging an online request. You define the scope of the collection and invite people to participate.
- NOTE:
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- Avoid requesting new audits which have the same scope as existing audits.
- Individual results in audit mode are not publicly available on this site and the dissemination of results remains the responsibility of the administrator of the audit.