Positioning the organization in the strategic environment of its industry is one of the first and most important phases of the organizational strategic planning and in today knowledge-based economy has its importance been duplicated for higher education institutes as the centers of education, knowledge creation and knowledge worker training. Up to now, various models with diverse approaches hav...

The quality management in the Municipal Sports Services is embedded in the servuction provided to the citizens, which are their internal customers who determine the quality improvement ensuring competitiveness with excellence criteria. The Model of the European Foundation for Quality Management enables the evaluation of organization progress towards achieving quality goals, from a structured, m...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a treatment process redesign programme implementing evidence-based treatment as part of a total quality management in a Dutch addiction treatment centre. METHOD Quality management was monitored over a period of more than 10 years in an addiction treatment centre with 550 professionals. Changes are evaluated, comparing the scores on the nine criteria of the European Found...

High seed quality is a critical component for realising yield potential. Forsmallholder cowpea farmers in northern Nigeria the informal seed system is amajor supplier of genetically high-quality seed, but the physiological quality offarmers’ produced seed remains unknown. The project “Promoting SustainableAgriculture in Borno State” (PROSAB) trained and supported farmers in seedproduction in Bo...

1574-7891/$ – see fron doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2 Professor Marja Makarow – who took up her post as CEO at the European Science Foundation (ESF) in January – aims to facilitate greater collaboration between the national funding organisations of the different European organisations and the European Commission. For such a mediating role Makarow, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at th...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of asymptomatic vertebral fractures on the quality of life in older women as part of the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional study with a random sample of 180 women 65 years of age or older with or without vertebral fractures. The Quality of Life Questionnaire of the European Foundation for Os...

A century ago, hospital quality management was almost nonexistent. Quality committees were primarily chroniclers. One excerpt from a hospital quality committee report at an American academic center might represent the best of hospital quality management practice then: ‘Autoclave did not rise >212°. Interns had to carry patients to and from the operating rooms owing to lack of orderlies. Rubber ...