Quality Management
Flanders BioImaging incorporates agreed quality management practices across domains, modalities and sites. This aims to facilitate the highest scientific quality and ensure reproducibility of experimental results, as well as facilitating multi-center delivery of larger projects. Flanders BioImaging works under the principles of the EQIPD quality management system.
Our quality management principles
Engage with autonomy
Decisions about specific needs and solutions are made by researchers, and not by EQIPD. EQIPD has formulated core requirements for the QS implementation and, as a partner in this process, EQIPD asks critical questions and provides recommendations that are voluntary to follow and are provided only to help the researchers throughout the implementation and use.
Grow through reflection
What it means to have the right quality level in place is suggested by your environment (collaborators, funders, institution, etc.). EQIPD does not “invent” needs or requirements of your funders or your collaborators. As a partner in this process, EQIPD QS only allows you to see these requirements better and suggests ways of implementing them.
Focus on goal
Focus on the outcome (Performance Standards), not on the path, timelines or the tools to get there.
Be transparent
Key research processes must be transparent. This principle applies specifically to retention and accessibility of information related to key decisions related to study design, conduct or analysis (e.g., decisions to include or exclude certain data points in the analysis).
Leave a trace
Key research processes must be traceable. Complementary to the principle above, this principle refers to retention and accessibility of all information that is necessary for a complete reconstruction of a key research process (e.g., Raw data related to reported data are findable, and reported data are reconstructable from raw data).