OBJECTIVE To examine changes in subjective and objective dimensions of quality of life (QoL) in a large Canadian sample of patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder treated in academic and non-academic settings over a 2-year period. METHOD Patients recruited in the study across the country were assessed for QoL and functioning using the Client and Provider versions ...

BACKGROUND The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the majority of today's plastic surgical procedures. In-process analyses that allow rapid feedback to the surgeon based on surrogate markers may pr...

The fields of quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) continue to grow with greater attention and awareness, increased mandates and incentives, and more research. Academic medical centers and their academic departments have a long-standing tradition for innovation and scholarship within a multifaceted mission to provide patient care, educate the next generation, and conduct research. Aca...

Owing to the expansion of object-oriented systems development, the need for high quality education of skilled systems analysts and designers has emerged. The process of teaching should include the periodical quality assessment and resulting improvement. In the paper the survey of UML 2 teaching at academic level is presented and discussed. In the paper prerequisites of teaching process were int...

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...

INTRODUCTION In 1996 the University of Michigan Health System created the Guidelines Utilization, Implementation, Development, and Evaluation Studies (GUIDES) unit to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of primary care for common medical problems. GUIDES's primary functions are to oversee the development of evidence-based, practical clinical guidelines for common medical conditions; meas...

OBJECTIVE To assess academic emergency medicine (EM) chairs' perceptions of quality improvement (QI) training programs. METHODS A voluntary anonymous 20 item survey was distributed to a sample of academic chairs of EM through the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine. Data was collected to assess the percentage of academic emergency physicians who had received QI training, the ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether PSP can be adopted to foster pedagogical effect in an academic class. In this study we examined five personal process improvement areas of the PSP: size and effort estimation accuracy, product quality, process quality, and personal productivity. Surveys were taken at the end of this course to understand students’ attitudes toward the Personal ...