introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. the aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. materials and methods: this is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identify a...

The process of engineering software-intensive systems that comply with their Certification and Accreditation (C&A) requirements involves many critical decision-making activities for the related stakeholders. Considering the exhaustive nature of C&A activities together with the complexity of software-intensive systems, effective decision making relies heavily on the ways to understand and struct...

This paper covers the design, development and implementation of a review-based quality management system for an ecological database. We define a quality assurance process similar to that of a peer-review, whereby incoming data is separated into smaller items suitable for individual reviewing based on individual expertise. A simple yet efficient scheduling mechanism is devised that will distribu...

We present the characteristics of component-based software engineering and derive the requirements for a corresponding development process. Based on this, we propose changes and extensions for the V-Modell, the German standard process model for information systems development in the public services. Following this model, we cover not only systems engineering, but also project management, config...

Requirements of a project are found to change in various ways during the course of the same. The effects of varying magnitude of requirement volatility on different project parameters like effort, schedule, etc have been well investigated. However, there has been no analysis on how different ‘patterns’ of requirement volatility influence selection of project management approaches and the result...

background iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (dcss) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. however, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (qa) policies in dcss units. this study explores the extent of application of eleven qa strategies in dcss units withi...

In a CDIO programme, the CDIO syllabus, standards, and self-evaluation model constitute the core components of the programme’s quality assurance system. At the same time, CDIO programmes are also evaluated by national standards. A CDIO programme needs a quality assurance system which also fulfils these national requirements, and that is able to produce the evidence and documentation needed for ...