INTRODUCTION Outcome assessment is the standard for evaluating the quality of health services worldwide. In this study, outcome has been divided into immediate and final outcome. Aim was to compare an intervention hospital with a Continuous Quality Improvement approach to a control group using benchmark assessments of immediate outcome indicators in surgical care. Results were compared to final...

The professional field of instructional design has been greatly impacted by the increase in “on-demand” information required to support the performance of a worker or team. To address this emerging reality and the resulting need to provide cost-effective training, many organizations are committed to converting a significant amount of current instructional material to electronic media and, incre...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this review were to identify factors that influence implementation of hospital accreditation programmes and to assess the impact of the accreditation process on quality improvement in public hospitals. DATA SOURCES Two electronic databases, Medline (OvidSP) and PubMed, were systematically searched. STUDY SELECTION "Public hospital", "hospital accreditation", and...

activities has an immediate impact on the revenue streams of a service provider that can, in turn, encourage commercial and operational efficiencies for aiding the expansion and delivery of improved, reliable, and sustainable services. This note draws on national and international cases to explore what it takes to implement an effective billing and collection system. The Water and Sanitation Pr...

The type of the workload on a database management system (DBMS) is a key consideration in tuning its performance. Allocations for resources such as main memory can be very different depending on whether the workload type is Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) or Decision Support System (DSS). Database administrators must, therefore, recognize the significant shifts of workload type that demand...