Better design, better hospitals

Heart hospitals: for better or worse.

Do "most wired" hospitals deliver better care?

BACKGROUND A study was conducted in 2006 to compare differences in objective quality of care measures among hospitals labeled "Most Wired"--a hospital or member-hospital of a health system listed among the Hospital and Health Network's Healthcare's Most Wired Hospitals for 2004--versus hospitals without that designation. METHODS Ten quality indicators representing cardiac and pulmonary measur...

Better and Faster Patient Training

اقامت هرچه کوتاهتر بیمار در بیمارستان، مستلزم آموزش مؤثر او و خانواده وی است

Challenges for Better thesis supervision

  Background: Conduction of thesis by the students is one of their major academic activities. Thesis quality and acquired experiences are highly dependent on the supervision. Our study is aimed at identifing the challenges in thesis supervision from both students and faculty members point of view.   Methods : This study was conducted using individual in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussi...

Predicting Customer-Expectation-Based Warranty Cost for Smaller-the- Better and Larger-the-Better Performance Characteristics

The quality loss function assumes a fixed target and only accounts for immediate issues within manufacturing facilities whereas warranty loss occurs during customer use. Based on the two independent variables, product performance and consumers’ expectation, a methodology to predict the probability of customer complaint is presented in this paper. The formulation presented will serve as a basic ...