Background: Studies have shown that mothers of premature newborns have lower physical and psychological quality of life compared to mothers of healthy neonates. Therefore, applying a health promotion program for supporting them is necessary. Aim: To determine the effectiveness of a health promotion program on the quality of the life of mothers of premature newborns. Methods: In this quasi- expe...

Demonstration Grant Program In February 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants, funding 18 States, to improve the quality of health care for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Funded by the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), the Quality Demonstration Grant Program aims to id...

The launch of the ASCO Quality Training Program (QTP) is the next step in the evolution of ASCO quality initiatives; the QTP moves beyond the society’s quality measurement focus to implement a novel approach to practice improvement. ASCO developed the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) as a measurement program to allow practices to assess the quality of care that they provide their pat...

This paper features quality assurance of specific distance learning master study program through selfevaluation. This unique program involving e-learning as the program content, as well as delivery method, is presented in the paper from the aspects of its quality assurance. Student evaluation of this study program as a part of the internal quality assurance is performed at the end of every scho...

Manual data acquisition is often subject to incompleteness – data attributes that are missing due to time and data-availability constraints, which might damage data usability for analyses and decision making. This study introduces a novel optimization model for setting mandatory versus voluntary attributes in a dataset. This model may direct the decision of whether or not to enforce the acquisi...

Game trees are widely used as models of various decision-making situations. Empirical results with game-playing computer programs have led to the general belief that searching deeper on a game tree improves the quality of a decision. The surprising result of the research summarized in this paper is that there is an infinite class of game trees for which increasing the search depth does not impr...

In this paper, we address the problem of data placement in a grid based multimedia environment, where the resource providers, i.e. servers, are intermittently available. The goal is to optimize the system performance by admitting maximum number of users into the system while ensuring user Quality of Service (QoS). We define and formulate various placement strategies that determine the degree of...