Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor D.E., 43400, Malaysia. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) 26300, Malaysia. Senior Staff Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Center, MIMOS Berhad Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Department of Industrial Management, Islamic Aza...

background: quality management is one of the most effective strategies for improving the health systems performance in developed and developing countries. the main goal of this study was identifying the most important aspects of quality management and preparing an appropriate model for health system. method: this research was a comparative study on quality management models in the health system...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in Europe. Over the past few decades, important advances have been made in screening, staging and treatment of colorectal cancer. However, considerable variation between and within European countries remains, which implies that further improvements are possible. The most important remaining question now is: when are we, health care professiona...

The SIMU programme aims at building cooperation across Europe in the field of computationl physics and chemistry of condensed matter, with particular emphasis on the development of novel computational techniques to perform multiscale molecular simulations. Preface Bridging the gap in time and spatial scales between what can be done computationally, and what is relevant in experiment or biology ...

KEY POINTS Although there are many patient organisations in Europe, this is not the case in all countries across the globe.Access to care is one of the main global issues highlighted by the European Lung Foundation International Patient Advisory Committee.The European Respiratory Society/European Lung Foundation Healthy Lungs for Life campaign can be used locally or globally to raise awareness ...

Several previous studies have suggested that basic decoding skills may develop less effectively in English than in some other European orthographies. The origins of this effect in the early (foundation) phase of reading acquisition are investigated through assessments of letter knowledge, familiar word reading, and simple nonword reading in English and 12 other orthographies. The results confir...

background a model of quality management called strategic collaborative quality management (scqm) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. the purpose of this stu...

This paper describes a case study of the release management of CS-ECIS, a health-care information system developed by the Dutch software vendor ChipSoft. We performed this case study to gain insight into the release management activities of a real-life company. This insight would enable us to propose new ways to ease the effort and reduce the risks associated with release management. The case s...