What's the difference between quality and substandard?

Quality


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
  • (n.) Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.
  • (n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.
  • (n.) An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.
  • (n.) Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (3) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
  • (4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (5) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (6) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
  • (7) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
  • (8) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
  • (9) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (10) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
  • (11) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (12) It has been an enormous improvement in our quality of life.
  • (13) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
  • (14) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (15) Quality evaluations by usual human spermiogram methods were applicable with only minor modifications to the procedures.
  • (16) An experience in working out and introduction of a system of failure-free performance work as one of the most important steps in creating a complex system for the production quality control at the Leningrad combine "Krasnogvardeets" is described.
  • (17) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
  • (18) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
  • (19) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (20) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.

Substandard


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the CSI, the 49.4% of patients who worsened captured 70.6% of the potentially substandard care; for MedisGroups, the 35.6% of patients who worsened also encompassed 70.6% of the problematic cases.
  • (2) The improvement was distributed throughout the community and included those who were substandard at baseline.
  • (3) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
  • (4) He focuses on counterfeit and substandard medicines and the role of intellectual property and trade law on access to medicines in less developed countries.
  • (5) As part of an interdisciplinary study of medical injury and malpractice litigation, we estimated the incidence of adverse events, defined as injuries caused by medical management, and of the subgroup of such injuries that resulted from negligent or substandard care.
  • (6) It is hypothesized that the substandard scores of the doctors do not reflect inadequate competence, but are a result of the difference between competence and performance.
  • (7) It wasn’t until three substandard kit contracts later in my career that I realised just because you are living your dream, it doesn’t mean you can’t want more from it financially.
  • (8) Scrutiny of the approach suggests that the psychopathology of these patients was inextricably intertwined with issues of racism, unemployment, poverty, and substandard housing.
  • (9) Farmworkers live and work under substandard conditions that place them at increased risk of pesticide-related illness.
  • (10) Some women still report receiving substandard care and some advances have actually created emotional strains for women.
  • (11) At present, there is no mechanism in place for denial of payment for substandard care, although proposed regulations were published in the January 18, 1989 Federal Register.
  • (12) We herein report a study which suggests that substandard obstetric care bears little relationship to the etiology of cerebral palsy.
  • (13) This preliminary study suggests that examining changes in illness severity may be a useful screen for substandard hospital care, but its utility could vary by condition and by how quality problems are defined.
  • (14) Consequences are: an acceptance of substandard care and a diversion of attention from therapeutic work.
  • (15) Our findings suggest that the uninsured are at greater risk for suffering medical injury due to substandard medical care.
  • (16) Substandard ventilation and the recirculation of air in many contemporary buildings has also been implicated in widespread nosocomial transmission.
  • (17) "We can't just stand by and do nothing when schools are substandard year after year.
  • (18) Diversiform somatizers had a higher risk of alcohol abuse, psychiatric hospitalization, and substandard income than either asthenic somatizers or non-somatizers.
  • (19) This is particularly the case where the enhancement is regarded as a vanity or may be detrimental to health, as was the case with substandard silicon breast implants.
  • (20) Low energy (Le): substandard vs. High energy (He): standard).