BACKGROUND Nowadays, patient safety issue is among one of the main concerns of the hospital policy worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the patient safety status in hospitals affiliated to Semnan city, using the WHO model for Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiatives (PSFHI) in summer 2014. METHODS That was a cross sectional descriptive study that addressed patient safety , which explai...

Modern organizations execute processes to deliver product and services, whose enactment needs to adhere to laws, regulations and standards. Conformance checking is the problem of pinpointing where deviations are observed in the process event data. Literature proposes solutions for the conformancechecking problem that, in fact, are implementations of planning algorithms built ad-hoc for the spec...

OBJECTIVE To outline the evolution of school food standards and their implementation and evaluation in each of the four countries of the UK since 2000. DESIGN Review of relevant policies, surveys and evaluations, including country-specific surveys and regional evaluations. SETTING UK: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. SUBJECTS Primary and secondary schools and schoolchildren....

The National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation (NAIEC) creates an approach for school system improvement that combines the necessary standards for achieving mileposts of the Baldrige Quality Criteria and the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9000 Standards for Education. Together, the Baldrige Criteria and ISO Standards meet the requirements for developing a high-...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to learn about (a) adult physical rehabilitation patients' perceptions of their involvement in the treatment planning process (goal setting, treatment planning, outcome evaluation), (b) their valuation of occupational therapy, and (c) how they would describe their interpersonal relationships with their occupational therapists. METHOD Fifteen subjects w...

Financial planning in Australia is moving away from its traditional characterisation as an “industry” and towards a “profession”. A key feature of any profession is an educational framework that facilitates the development of technical knowledge and generic skills by students so that they can successfully transition into the workplace. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)...

A video data sampling and transmission system is designed for video monitoring based on wireless mesh network. Discussion is made on the use of standards, working frequency, network infrastructure, coverage solutions, link budget, frequency planning, power supply, supporting transmission and AC design. Overall solution on wireless Mesh network digital video system is proposed and it is applied ...

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the accreditation process for information systems (IS) programs. This tutorial includes: • an overview of the accreditation criteria and standards for IS programs; • the process of information systems accreditation from ABET's Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) perspective; • a review of the process of planning and preparing for the...