Practitioners’ Perspectives

Understanding and Modelling Variability: Practitioners’ Perspectives

1. Introduction " Variability is our business " , or so we statisticians like to claim. Though it is possible to describe the ways in which mature applied statisticians think about and then model variability in particular scientific or engineering contexts (Wild & Pfannkuch 1999), it is much more difficult to trace how they come to that understanding. Another way of saying this is to ask, " How...

Some perspectives from leading academics and practitioners

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the fundamental and critical differences between two of the most powerful methodologies in a process excellence initiative in any organisation. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken was to collate opinions from a number of leading academics and practitioners from five different countries. It was also important to ensure that all parti...

The Ethics of Quality Improvement: Practitioners’ Perspectives

Introduction: 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. A literature search was conducted to identify issues in the ethical conduct of QI. Findings from the literature search were used to develop questions for sem...

Private Practitioners’ Perspectives on Their Involvement With the Tuberculosis Control Programme in a Southern Indian State

Background Public and private health sectors both play a crucial role in the health systems of low- and middleincome countries (LMICs). The tuberculosis (TB) control strategy in India encourages the public sector to actively partner with private practitioners (PPs) to improve the quality of front line service delivery. However, ensuring effective and sustainable involvement of PPs constitutes a...

Ergogenic substance abuse by adolescent athletes: perspectives for dental practitioners.