Glossaire

Le tableau inclut les abbréviations les plus courantes, les acronymes et les définitions utilisés pour les programmes EEQ de QCMD.

Glossary sections : A - C / D - P / Q - Z

ACCREDITATION	Certification, by a duly recognised body, of facilities, capability, objectivity, competence and integrity of an agency, service or operational group or individual to provide the specific service/s or operation/s as needed.
ANOVA	Analysis of variance
AUDIT	Systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are fulfilled.
BS	British Standard, issued by BSI
BSI	British Standards Institution
CALIBRATION	The operation that is required to determine the accuracy of measuring and test equipment.
CAP	College of American Pathologists
CAP / PAP	Corrective Action Procedure / Preventative Action Procedure
CEN	Commission European de Normalisation
CENELEC	European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
CERTIFICATION	The procedure and action by a duly authorised body of determining, verifying and attesting in writing to the qualifications of personnel, processes, procedures, or items in accordance with applicable requirements.
CERTIFICATION BODY	An impartial body, governmental or non-governmental, possessing the necessary competence and reliability to operate a certification system, and in which the interests of all parties concerned with the functioning of the system are represented.
COMPLIANCE	The fulfilment of a Quality Management System or quality procedure of specified requirements.
CONSIGNMENT	Products (or goods) that are issued or received as one delivery and covered by one set of documents.
CONTRACT	Agreed requirements between a supplier and customer transmitted by any means.
CoP	Code of Practice
CORRECTIVE ACTION	Action taken to eliminate the cause of a detected nonconformity or other undesirable situation.
CPA	College of Pathologists accreditation
CRM	Certified Reference Material
Ct	Cycle Threshold
CUSTOMER (Participant)	Ultimate consumer, user, client, beneficiary or second party.
CUSTOMER COMPLAINT	Any written, electronic, or oral communication that alleges deficiencies related to the identity, quality, durability, reliability, safety or performance of a device that has been placed on the market.

Abbréviations, Acronymes et Définitions