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		<title><![CDATA[Enabling The Healthcare Quality Improvement Cycle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1137833]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The key to improving quality in healthcare organizations is to ensure that unplanned events, issues, audits, reviews, and other quality and risk-related programs are managed effectively and performed consistently. It is important to optimize existing events and processes by applying, monitoring, and improving the key elements of the quality improvement...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Integrating Project Management Into A Six Sigma System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=920079]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For achieving organisational objectives, more and more businesses are now implementing quality improvement methodologies such as Total Quality Management, Total Quality Control and Six Sigma across all functional departments inside their organisations. All these methodologies do have their benefits, but the one that offers the most benefits is certainly Six...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pareto Analysis Step By Step]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=950453]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Pareto Analysis is a statistical technique in decision making that is used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect. It uses the Pareto Principle (also know as the 80/20 rule) the idea that by doing 20% of the work you can generate 80%...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NFL Teams Huddle Up Around Quality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5605/is_200704/ai_n23599168]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[QUALITY IMPROVEMENTQUALITY IMPROVEMENT]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin Hospitals Committed to Quality Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=158086]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The hospital industry has a long history of commitment to their core product, patient care. Wisconsin hospitals are leading the charge to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide to their customers. Over the past five years, the pace and dedication to this agenda has accelerated in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Measure, Learn, and Improve: Physicians' Involvement in Quality Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=154325]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Payers, accreditors, and consumers are using quality improvement QI methods, but little is known about whether physicians do so. The results from this 2003 national physician survey indicate that most do not. Physicians do not routinely use data for assessing their performance and are reluctant to share those data. They...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Disparities and Quality Improvement: Federal Policy Levers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=154367]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Using a quality improvement framework to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care highlights multiple opportunities for federal and state governments to exert policy leverage, particularly through their roles as purchasers and regulators. Under such a framework, federal and state governments can expand their roles in collecting race/ethnicity data;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Process Components For Quality Evaluation And Quality Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313837]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Processes and methods used for software construction have a high influence on the quality of the resulting software product. Therefore, the research in the field of method engineering should be more focused on quality aspects. Due to this reason, this paper proposes, process components for quality evaluation and quality improvement....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Pragmatic Approach To Quality Improvement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=92146]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From the executive summary: ‘The paper presents the story of a manager who made a huge contribution to supply chain effectiveness. The five-step approach to quality improvement, mentioned in the story, applied equal measures of common sense and creativity. The approach calls for encouraging people to select the leadership and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time Series Analysis For Quality Improvement: A Soft Computing Approach]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313888]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality improvement provides organizations with significant opportunities to reduce costs, increase sales, provide on time deliveries and foster better customer relationships. The design and manufacturing are among the critical processes for continuous quality improvement. Time series data collected from these processes are the useful source. While there are various techniques...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Crunching Data: The Key to Six Sigma Success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=144809]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality improvement programs come and go in health care and other industries. Many CIOs remember the days when Total Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement were the de rigueur programs that promised to squeeze the inefficiencies out of the care delivery process. This article reports that six-sigma quality programs work,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Physicians' Use of Electronic Medical Records: Barriers and Solutions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=158899]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Medical Record EMR is an enabling technology that allows physician practices to pursue more powerful quality improvement programs than is possible with paper-based records. However, achieving quality improvement through EMR use is neither low-cost nor easy. Based on a qualitative study of physician practices that had implemented an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Ethics of Quality Improvement: Practitioners’ Perspectives]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=56311]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Innovation is an essential component of quality improvement QI activities that aim to improve the provision of health care. These projects, however, engender ethical and regulatory issues around human subjects' protections. The author compared findings from the literature review with interviewees' perspectives.  Participants' perspectives differed most from the literature...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Siemens? Computerized Physician Order Entry Helps Prevent the Human Error]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=145680]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare systems in most countries are struggling with the increasing demand for healthcare services, increasing cost, limited financial resources and an increasing public demand for substantial quality improvements. Efficiency gains can help overcome these challenges. Increased automation in healthcare, utilizing electronic solutions designed for process improvements and active workflow management,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quality Improvement From The Viewpoint Of Statistical Method]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313856]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With the purpose of guiding professionals in conducting improvement projects in industry, several quality improvement strategies have been proposed which strongly rely on statistical methods. Examples are the Six Sigma programme, the Shainin System and Taguchi's methods. This paper seeks to make a rational reconstruction of these types of improvement...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Potential of Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support Quality Improvement Work and Research]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=121540]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper in detail talks about Electronic medical record EMR systems that are used for many purposes including patient care, administration, research, quality improvement and reimbursement. This study is aimed to test a data extraction tool QTools and to provide information to support the interpretation of EMR data. This...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quality Improvement: A Front Line View]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=58921]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In many industries and business sectors there has been an evolution over the past fifteen years and a distinct shift from the "quality assurance" approach to the broader, more encompassing "quality improvement" concept. In spite of the broad recognition and adaptation to continuous quality improvement, there continues to be a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Re-engineering and TQM: Approaches to Organizational Change told as a "Tale of Three Villages"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=58923]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many organizations implementing Total Quality Management TQM, start with vague directives with little clarity on what to do. Other organizations become victims of their own success. Their initial quality improvement teams may be so successful they rapidly create more teams, without the qualitative organization-wide changes necessary to sustain a permanent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=59019]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality Improvement is basically, the actions taken throughout the organization to increase the effectiveness of activities and processes to provide added benefits to both the organization and its customers. In simple terms, quality improvement is anything which causes a beneficial change in quality performance. All beneficial change results in improvement...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Changing the New Product Development Process: Reengineering or Continuous Quality Improvement?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=59585]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizations are changing their new product development processes in order to introduce improvements to innovation performance. The purpose of the study in the paper is twofold. First,  to characterize the change process to examine whether the approach taken represents  engineering, or continuous quality improvement. Second, to compare the...]]></description>
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