Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the collaboration between researchers and practitioners on developing standards guidelines for Facilities Management (FM). Design/methodology/approach This based a longitudinal case study research FM value adding its impact standardization development Value Guide. sources used are literature documents standardization, published planned standar...

In recent years, there has been a marked evolution in private sector approaches to managing product quality. The food industry has been moving away from the traditional, largely reactive approach, focusing on end-product testing and “fire-fighting” to deal with quality problems, to a total quality approach emphasizing prevention and involvement of all personnel in providing customer satisfactio...

Over the past 15 years, the processes for developing clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have shifted from their being written by experts (or based on expert opinion) to being largely written by methodologists. CPGs are quality improvement tools, and although they are presented in different ways, their aims are commonly to standardise care, improve its quality and safety, reduce wastage, decrea...

background in supporting a therapeutic approach and medication therapy management, pharmacy information system acts as one of the central pillars of information system. this ensures that medication therapy is being supported and evaluated with an optimal level of safety and quality similar to other treatments and services. objectives this research aims to evaluate the performance of pharmacy in...

Safety-critical intelligent automotive systems require stringent dependability while the are in operation. Therefore, safety and reliability issues must be addressed development of such safety-critical systems. Nevertheless, incorporation safety/reliability requirements into system will raise design complexity considerably. Furthermore, international standards only provide guidelines lack concr...

      In order to ensure the safety of parenterals, international pharmacopoeias and national standards have set up stringent guidelines and standards. Particulate con- tamination is a potential health risk caused by intravenous injection of particles large enough to potentially clog the small arteries. Particles could be produced through manufacturing and packaging or even dispensing of the ph...

BACKGROUND In March 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a new set of standards for clinical practice guidelines intended to enhance the quality of guidelines being produced. To our knowledge, no systematic review of adherence to such standards has been undertaken since one published over a decade ago. METHODS Two reviewers independently screened 130 guidelines selected at random from...

The growing adoption of safety standards in the automotive industry results in an increasing interest in as well as an increasing uncertainty about software tool certification and qualification. With ISO 26262 on the horizon, new tool qualification requirements need to be understood and implemented by automotive software practitioners. This paper summarizes the tool qualification approach of IS...

This study presents the manner in which transient modeling concepts, which are fully analyzed in the referred standards, are implemented, for the purpose of evaluating the Transient Ground Potential Rise (TGPR). This is a phenomenon of 10–100kV voltages with up to 10µs duration on the grounded enclosure of Gas Insulated Substations (GIS), which may cause concern for personnel safety and pro...