...Evangelia G. Panagiotidou; Panos T. Chountalas; Anastasios I. Magoutas; Dimitrios A. Georgakellos; Athanasios G. Lagodimos Purpose The Management System Standard ISO/IEC 17025 aims to enhance the performance, service quality, accuracy and credibility of measurements in accredited testing...

... strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, providing actionable recommendations for policymakers. Findings The evaluation highlights that the apex organizations for metrology, standards and accreditation are well-established with robust international and regional linkages. The approval...

...Rosembergue Pereira Souza; Luiz Fernando Rust da Costa Carmo; Luci Pirmez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure for finding unusual patterns in accredited tests using a rapid processing method for analyzing video records. The procedure uses the temporal differencing technique...

..., a metrology laboratory is not required to have an ISO 9001 certification or ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. At this moment, there are companies with their quality management systems certified according to the ISO 9001 standard which have metrology laboratories to make internal checks of their measuring equipment...

... in supporting quality (ISO 9001) and competence (ISO/IEC 17025) management systems, neither of the above-mentioned standards covers all BRC’s operations. ISO/IEC 17025 standard in some other aspects is considered to go too far, demanding independent accreditation for each process and each preservation technique...

...Sónia Duarte Silva; Ana Fonseca Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply quality management tools and practices in the design of an integrated accreditation model for Local Health Trusts, in order to contribute to the sustainability of the Portuguese Primary HealthCare Service. Following...