Maintenance costs of Information Systems (ISs) are high today and are growing. Part of the costs come from low software quality. The software quality can be measured when it is maintained. By improving the quality of maintenance prone modules future maintenance costs may be curtailed. In this article we will discuss how to measure software quality and we will also present a prototype that has b...

Quality has become one of the core factors for almost all manufacturing and service companies that aim to achieve customer satisfaction. Therefore, improving quality is considered to be one of the efforts that companies consider a must to attain customer loyalty in today’s complex global competitive environment. Studies concluded that any serious endeavour to improve quality will lead to an inc...

Achieving optimal production cycle time for improving manufacturing processes is one of the common problems in production planning. During recent years, different approaches have been developed for solving this problem, but most of them assume that mean quality characteristic is constant over production run length and sets it on customer’s target value. However, the process mean may drift from ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to calculate costs and health-related quality of life of women with endometriosis-associated symptoms treated in referral centres. METHODS A prospective, multi-centre, questionnaire-based survey measured costs and quality of life in ambulatory care and in 12 tertiary care centres in 10 countries. The study enrolled women with a diagnosis of endometriosis and with a...

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between quality of care, survival, and costs in elderly patients treated for oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer (OPSCC). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare data. METHODS We evaluated 666 patients diagnosed with OPSCC from 2004 to 2007 using multivariate regression and survival analysis. Using quality ...

the article of marc jamoulle shows the importance of the contribution of general practitioners (gps) in improving the quality and the efficiency of the health systems. starting from the concept of quaternary prevention for reducing excessive costs in the preventive procedures, he suggests a change of paradigm in every daily activity of the gp in order to have a stronger ethical approach to the ...

Many information quality initiatives and projects need to demonstrate the potential benefits of their IQrelated activities already in their planning stage. In doing so, practitioners rely on cost estimates based on current non-quality data effects (that are then compared to data quality improvement costs). In producing such estimates on costs caused by low quality data, it is difficult to ident...