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- Organizational Culture And Quality Practices In Six Sigma
- Using data collected from a sample of 226 manufacturing plants, we examine how organizational culture is related to quality practices associated with Six Sigma implementation. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze the relationships between four cultural orientations as defined by the competing values framework and ten quality practices in...
- White papers 2006-06-01
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- Working Together for Quality Practice Environments
- St. Mary's Hospital Introduces the AARN Practice Setting Consultation ProgramTMAARN has initiated the Practice Setting Consultation ProgramTM PSCP following the successful implementation of a pilot program at St. Mary's Hospital in Camrose. PSCP is a self-directed program designed to assist registered nurses RNs and their employers in creating and maintaining...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Meetings on current good manufacturing practice regs.(Noted In The Federal Register)
- MEETINGS ON CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE REGS: FDA will hold three public meetings to solicit comments, data and scientific information about the current state of quality management techniques, quality systems approaches and voluntary industry MEETINGS ON CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE REGS: FDA will hold three...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- Managing Cost Of Quality: Insight Into Industry Practice
- This paper reports on the study of the quality costing practices at four large successful multinational companies. All four companies use systematic quality initiatives; however, a formal Cost of Quality CoQ methodology was only employed at one of them. This is in agreement with the literature findings arguing that a...
- White papers 2006-03-30
- Shoprite takes control of its data quality to improve business efficiency with solution from BI Practice.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 October 2005-SYBASE: Shoprite takes control of its data quality to improve business efficiency with solution from BI PracticeC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05102005 Cape Town, South Africa - Shoprite, Africa's largest food retailer, has selected Sybase SA's BI Practice, to...
- Research articles 2005-10-05
- Evaluating the Role of Quality Assessment of Primary Studies in Systematic Reviews of Cancer Practice Guidelines
- The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of study quality assessment of primary studies in cancer practice guidelines. Reliable and valid study quality assessment scales were sought and applied to published reports of trials included in systematic reviews of cancer guidelines. Sensitivity analyses were performed to evaluate...
- White papers 2005-02-16
- The Role of Confounding by Indication in Assessing the Effect of Quality of Care on Disease Outcomes in General Practice: Results of a Case-Control Study
- In quality of care research, limited information is found on the relationship between quality of care and disease outcomes. This case-control study was conducted with the aim to assess the effect of guideline adherence for stroke prevention on the occurrence of stroke in general practice. It in detail reports on...
- White papers 2005-01-27
- Quality Incentives: The Case of U.K. General Practitioners
- The United Kingdom is implementing major changes to the national contract for General Practitioners GPs. A central plank of the new arrangements is an ambitious scheme to reward high-quality care. Each general practice will be scored on 146 performance indicators according to the measured quality of care it delivers, and...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Measuring The Quality Of Data Models: An Empirical Evaluation Of The Use Of Quality Metrics In Practice
- This paper describes the empirical evaluation of a set of proposed metrics for evaluating the quality of data models. A total of twenty nine candidate metrics were originally proposed, each of which measured a different aspect of quality of a data model. Action research was used to evaluate the usefulness...
- White papers 2003-06-11
- Reliability and Validity of the AGREE Instrument Used by Physical Therapists in Assessment of Clinical Practice Guidelines
- The AGREE instrument has been validated for evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines CPG pertaining to medical care. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of physical therapists using the AGREE to assess quality of CPGs relevant to physical therapy practice. Factor analysis with varimax rotation, produced a 4-factor solution that was...
- White papers 2005-03-02
- Changing the New Product Development Process: Reengineering or Continuous Quality Improvement?
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Between Evidence - Based Practice and Total Quality Management: The Implementation of Cost-Effective Care
- There are an increasing number of studies showing that patients often do not receive necessary care or receive care that is not needed, inefficient or even damaging. There is no lack of ideas and approaches on how to improve practice. In the last decades we have seen the rise of...
- White papers 2000-08-23
- CMS Opens New Pay-for-Quality Models
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS announced on March 22 that it is making available the shared savings payment model and quality measurement and reporting processes used in the Medicare Physician Group Practice PGP DemonstrationThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS announced on March 22 that it...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Health Net and Connecticut State Medical Society-Individual Practice Association Distribute $4 Million to Physicians for Quality Care
- SHELTON, Conn. -- Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., a subsidiary of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT), and the Connecticut State Medical Society-Individual Practice Association (CSMS-IPA), today announced results from Connecticut's most comprehensive pay for performance health care program. In its first year, "Partners for Quality and Cost-Effective Care" (P4Q) distributed...
- Research articles 2006-09-19
- Scope of practice: Independence and MDP
- Multidisciplinary practice MDP, auditor independence, and state regulation of accounting practice are three themes that run through this issue of the Journal. All rely on a common keystone of professional accounting practice: its scope. For each, however, the structure emanating from the keystone differs fundamentally, subjecting the practice of accounting...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Peer Review: Raising the Bar for Audit Quality
- Quality control of audits by the government is a part of both proposals, and we need to try to help regulators and legislators understand peer review, the profession's quality-control mechanism. If they are going to make changes, they need to understand what they are changing and avoid unintended consequences. The...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Converging Pathways - A Journey Towards Quality Case Management
- Development of case management as a profession surged in the latter part of the last century, due in large part to the birth in 1990 of two quality-focused organizations - URAC and the Case Management Society of America CMSA. While CMSA focused its efforts on the standards of practice for...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: The State of the Science
- Routine practice fails to incorporate research evidence in a timely and reliable fashion. Many Quality Improvement QI efforts aim to close these gaps between clinical research and practice. However, in sharp contrast to the paradigm of evidence-based medicine, these efforts often proceed on the basis of intuition and anecdotal accounts...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Comparative Analysis Between Manufacturing And Construction Enterprises On The Use Of Formalized Quality Management Systems
- This paper seeks to discover the current state-of-practice for quality initiatives in both the manufacturing and construction industries in the Midwestern United States. It provides a brief literature review of the current state-of-practice in both manufacturing and construction, and presents a statistical comparison of the two industries using a survey...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Quality Systems Inc. to install practice management/medical records systems at U.S. Medical Alliance Inc
- TUSTIN, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 28, 1996--Sheldon Razin, chairman and president of Quality Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII) QSI, Wednesday announced that U.S. Medical Alliance Inc. USMA, a management services organization MSO in Atlanta City, N.J., has purchased a combined practice management/medical records system.
- Research articles 1996-08-28
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