MEDICAL SERVICES; QUALITY & ITS ATTRIBUTES

An Approach of Web Services Quality Attributes Specification

Quality Attributes and Aspects of a Medical Product Family

In this paper we describe our experience with quality attributes and aspects in the development of a medical imaging product family. Quality attributes play a role in the problem space, whereas aspects play a role in the solution space. The usage of quality attributes and aspects introduces multiple views, dealing with separate concerns. For example, one can view a system from a safety or porta...

The quality of emergency medical services.

Although Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a crucial part of the health care system, there is relatively little research on the quality of those services. EMS agencies often measure their performance using criteria such as response time or total prehospital time. But larger scale studies that cross counties and providers are rare. This Issue Brief summarizes two studies that use comprehensive...

Combining Quality House Method and Servqual Analysis in Quality of Medical Clinic Services

Introduction: One of the problems of service unit managers is identifying actions and prioritizing them to improve service quality. The purpose of this study was to determine combining Quality House method and SERVQUAL analysis in quality of medical clinic services. Methods: This is a descriptive study. In this study, two statistical populations including Clinical Reference Society and Medical...

Analyzing Quality Attributes

In an earlier column, I compared the roles of a software architect and a traditional building architect. I suggested that this oftenused analogy may not be entirely accurate, and that there may be a more precise analogy available to us in the emerging field of architectural engineering. In a subsequent release of SEI Interactive, Rick Kazman continued contrasting software architecture and “trad...