Commitment to quality

Group consensus peer review in radiation oncology: commitment to quality

BACKGROUND Peer review, especially prospective peer review, has been supported by professional organizations as an important element in optimal Radiation Oncology practice based on its demonstration of efficacy at detecting and preventing errors prior to patient treatment. Implementation of peer review is not without barriers, but solutions do exist to mitigate or eliminate some of those barrie...

Case Studies Is Management Commitment to Quality Just “ A Given ” ?

Management at six factories in the UK which had received awards for their manufacturing excellence were interviewed about their TQM programmes. The aim of these interviews was to discuss the TQM initiatives and, in particular, to gauge the degree and nature of the management commitment required to make these successful. What emerged was an indication of the emphasis that managers must place on ...

construction and validation of translation metacognitive strategy questionnaire and its application to translation quality

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

Commitment to Priorities ∗

(3) a. Friends, begin your meditation now! ⇒ b. They should begin to meditate now. (4) a. Do not park in the dry cleaner’s lot! ⇐ b. They should not park in the dry cleaner’s lot. ∗I would like to thank audiences at the University of British Columbia and Yale University for very helpful feedback on the material presented here. This research has been supported by NSF award BCS-1053038 ‘The Seman...

The commitment to care.