These determine whether health organizations are meeting public standards for quality set by government and allows regional comparisons.
And how far can negative controls succeed in raising public standards?
Within this framework, individuals are seen as monitoring their behaviour with reference to private and public standards.
If dragging me into bed is supposed to be her public standard of value, she knows that she couldn't live up to it.
By today's measure, Americans in the first half of the century were sexually oppressed; the gulf between public standards and private behavior was extreme.
In western countries, the legal concept of "informed consent" often sets the public standards on this issue.
Queen Victoria, who spent half her life in widow's weeds, set a public standard.
But by the standards of performance in any large organization, public or private, 300 mistakes out of 1,049,000 cases is not bad.
I must be very naive indeed to thing that public standards should include being truthful.
And it is a well-known public standard with no ways around it.