TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Validation and Verification
T2 - How they Different and What They Mean to Healthcare Simulation
AU - Barnes, John Jacob
AU - Konia, Mojca Remskar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Summary Statement The healthcare simulation (HCS) community recognizes the importance of quality management because many novel simulation devices and techniques include some sort of description of how they tested and assured their simulation's quality. Verification and validation play a key role in quality management; however, literature published on HCS has many different interpretations of what these terms mean and how to accomplish them. The varied use of these terms leads to varied interpretations of how verification process is different from validation process. We set out to explore the concepts of verification and validation in this article by reviewing current psychometric science description of the concepts and exploring how other communities relevant to HCS, such as medical device manufacturing, aviation simulation, and the fields of software and engineering, which are building blocks of technology-enhanced HCS, use the terms, with the focus of trying to clarify the process of verification. We also review current literature available on verification, as compared with validation in HCS and, finally, offer a working definition and concept for each of these terms with hopes to facilitate improved communication within, and with colleagues outside, the HCS community.
AB - Summary Statement The healthcare simulation (HCS) community recognizes the importance of quality management because many novel simulation devices and techniques include some sort of description of how they tested and assured their simulation's quality. Verification and validation play a key role in quality management; however, literature published on HCS has many different interpretations of what these terms mean and how to accomplish them. The varied use of these terms leads to varied interpretations of how verification process is different from validation process. We set out to explore the concepts of verification and validation in this article by reviewing current psychometric science description of the concepts and exploring how other communities relevant to HCS, such as medical device manufacturing, aviation simulation, and the fields of software and engineering, which are building blocks of technology-enhanced HCS, use the terms, with the focus of trying to clarify the process of verification. We also review current literature available on verification, as compared with validation in HCS and, finally, offer a working definition and concept for each of these terms with hopes to facilitate improved communication within, and with colleagues outside, the HCS community.
KW - Verification
KW - healthcare simulation
KW - medical education
KW - quality assurance
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000298
DO - 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000298
M3 - Article
C2 - 29771813
AN - SCOPUS:85054446680
SN - 1559-2332
VL - 13
SP - 356
EP - 362
JO - Simulation in Healthcare
JF - Simulation in Healthcare
IS - 5
ER -