Introduction Increasing efforts to reform health care and contain medical expenditures have accelerated the push to define, capture, and enforce quality measures for delivered care. This trend is evident particularly for procedural and preventative measures that can have a marked effect on patient outcomes and health care costs, such as the use of colonoscopy for screening and surveillance for ...

This paper presents an evaluation of the long-term impact of microfinance programmes on Acehnese children during the post-tsunami recovery. The study, conducted from June to August 2010, examined the impact of microfinance programming six years after the tsunami. The sample consisted of 185 microfinance participants, with a comparison group of 192 individuals who did not participate in microfin...

abstract soil quality is an essential concept for maximum agriculture production without environmental destruction. studying soil physical quality indicators, that express soil structural stability and soil air-water balance in root zone, is one of the most important aspects of soil quality. so determination of optimal range for pore volume distribution is important and this research carried ou...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest for quality measurement in health care services; pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) included. However, attempts of measuring the quality of physician-staffed EMS (P-EMS) are scarce. The aim of this study was to develop a set of quality indicators for international P-EMS to allow quality improvement initiatives. METHODS A four-step modified no...

OBJECTIVE To develop quality indicators for assessing the performance of central sterile supply department. (CSSD). MATERIAL AND METHOD Quality indicators for sterilization in CSSD were searched by literature review and by current situation analysis by 79 infection control nurses (ICNs) and 83 heads of CSSD. Quality indicators were drafted and subsequently validated by 5 experts. The feasibil...

26 Janet Creaser, Department of Mechanical Engineering Evaluation of Minnesota’s