As part of the national quality improvement campaign, industry and government have joined together to establish the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Created by public law in 1987, the Award promotes an understanding of quality excellence, greater awareness of quality as a crucial competitive element, and sharing of information and strategies. There are three categories in which companie...

13 FROM ABERYSTWYTH to Adelaide, Birmingham to Brussels, the RCN’s highly successful clinical leadership programme continues to benefit health care organisation and delivery. Bolstered by a new team structure and a shared vision of ‘advancing excellence in clinical leadership’, this internationally acclaimed programme has several initiatives for healthcare staff working in both the public and i...

The Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) has adopted “A commitment to excellence” as a slogan for 2015. Selected by members of the editorial board among various candidates, this slogan most accurately reflects the eagerness and passion of our members and our commitment to reaching excellence in the field of urology. To be an excellent journal in the f ield of urology, the KJU should be indexed in SC...

A British heart surgeon argues that excellence in medicine must always be pursued even when, as in technically advanced specialties, excellence requires expensive equipment and highly trained multidisciplinary teams. He advocates that decisions on a fair and reasonable distribution of costly health services should be made within the National Health Service, specifically by its Department of He...

introduction: establishing improvement in every organization requires assessment of organizational performance, planning and goal-setting to improve the performance. despite remarkable progresses occurred in recent years on designing the frameworks and performance evaluation systems, many organizations still rely on traditional criteria. therefore, according to the importance of performance eva...

Negar Taleschian Tabrizi, Barmak Yaaghoubian, Fariba Pashazadeh, Sakineh Hajebrahimi. Students’ Research Committee, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Urology, Iran...