The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) is the most introduced model in Spanish hospitals. The main target of this model is the internal and external client's satisfaction. The model of strategic management Balanced Scorecard (BSC) facilitates the alignment between management and the mission and vision of hospitals. For this reason, we propose a model of integrated management: EFQ...

BACKGROUND Topotecan is a relatively new drug for use as a second-line treatment in patients with relapsed small cell lung cancer (SCLC). We performed a systematic review and economic evaluation of topotecan, and consider it here in relation to the NICE end of life criteria. METHODS Seventeen bibliographic databases (including Cochrane library, Medline and Embase) were searched from 1990 to F...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) provides an outlook of an organization’s general performance; it integrates financial perspective with other performance aspects, like learning and growth, internal processes, and customer perspectives. The momentous issue, in implementation of BSC, is the proper selection of measures. The main objective of this paper is to introduce a novel approach in an attempt t...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a popular concept for performance measurement, because it focuses attention of management on just a few measures and bridges different functional areas (both financial and non-financial measures are included in the BSC). But, the BSC has also received some criticism. In this paper five limitations of the use of the BSC are discussed: BSCs focus on unidirectional ...

Peer code review is a widely adopted software engineering practice to ensure quality and reliability in both the commercial open-source projects. Due large effort overhead associated with practicing reviews, project managers often wonder, if their reviews are effective there improvement opportunities that respect. Since at Samsung Research Bangladesh (SRBD) were also intrigued by these question...

BACKGROUND There is considerable interest in investigating the role of the microbiota in various diseases, including transplant rejection. Germ-free (GF) and gnotobiotic mice are powerful models for this line of investigation, but performing surgery within the confines of a sterile housing isolator is exceptionally challenging. Development of rigorous protocols to be able to remove axenic mice ...

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) is a method of measuring the cost and performance of activities and cost objects. It helps identify problems or ways to take advantage of opportunities by providing financial and nonfinancial information about activities and cost objects. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has been accepted by the business world, worldwide, as a very promising tool for the performance measure...