In this research, a multidimensional indicator to measure quality in education public high schools is proposed. the study, carried out Atlántico region Colombia, initial step was identify factors that directly affect through databases and teacher surveys. Then, statistical analysis performed multiple regression develop an equation of weighted factors, based on quantification each factor's impor...

This commentary reviews a recent piece by Burton and Rycroft-Malone on the use of Resource Based View (RBV) in healthcare organizations. It first outlines the core content of their piece. It then discusses their attempts to extend RBV to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. Some critique is elaborated. The broader question of why RBV seems to be migrating into ...

The QIS is a revised long-term care survey process that was developed under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) oversight through a multi-year contract. It represents an effort to standardize how the survey process measures nursing home compliance with federal standards and the interpretative guidelines that define those standards. The QIS demonstration represents the culmination...

A known problem of traditional coverage metrics is that they do not assess oracle quality—that is, whether the computation result is actually checked against expectations. In this paper, we introduce the concept of checked coverage—the dynamic slice of covered statements that actually influence an oracle. Our experiments on seven open-source projects show that checked coverage is a sure indicat...

In order to allow a comparison of (otherwise incomparable) sets, many evolutionary multiobjective optimizers use indicator functions to guide the search and to evaluate the performance of search algorithms. The most widely used indicator is the hypervolume indicator. It measures the volume of the dominated portion of the objective space bounded from below by a reference point. Though the hyperv...

Hospital readmission rate has been a long-considered quality of care indicator in adult medicine, albeit with mixed reviews. As we begin to grapple with the quality significance and preventability of readmissions in pediatrics, however, we are outpaced by movement in the insurance industry. Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce...