GEOGRAPHICAL ISSUE Introduction The quality of the air we breathe directly affects our general health and well being. The regular monitoring and maintenance of air quality is‚ therefore‚ extremely important for our overall quality of life. A key environmental issue which Australia currently faces is reversing the degradation of our ambient (outside) and indoor air quality. Aside from affecting human health‚ the presence of air pollutants in high levels can also adversely impact upon wildlife and
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RESEARCH IN ACTION Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality • www.ahrq.gov Issue #14 March 2004 Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care Hospitals with low nurse staffing levels tend to have higher rates of poor patient outcomes such as pneumonia‚ shock‚ cardiac arrest‚ and urinary tract infections‚ according to research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and others. Yet increasing staffing levels is not an easy task. Major factors contributing to lower staffing
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Issues: The issue right now to the current situation of the public sector hospital is that Public sector hospital has limited resources to offer‚ compare to private. Ex. (high salaries‚ job promotion and additional worker‚ ) so How to be competitive? ‚ We wont be able to compete with private sector due to what private sector hospital provides is more based on extrinsic factor. So what we have to do is to work on intrinsic factor such as development‚ responsibility and create positive
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Case Study Managing Quality: Falls Church General Hospital Founded in 1968‚ the Falls Church General Hospital (FCGH) is a privately owned 6l5patient bed facility in the incorporated township of Falls Church‚ Virginia. Falls Church is four miles from downtown Washington‚ D.C.‚ and is surrounded by the counties of Arlington‚ Fairfax‚ and Alexandria‚ Virginia‚ all affluent urban/suburban communities with a highly educated population composed largely of employees of the U.S. government and high-tech
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ELECTRONICS‚ VOL. 51‚ NO. 3‚ JUNE 2004 641 A Review of Three-Phase Improved Power Quality AC–DC Converters Bhim Singh‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ Brij N. Singh‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Ambrish Chandra‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ Kamal Al-Haddad‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ Ashish Pandey‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Dwarka P. Kothari‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE Abstract—Three-phase ac–dc converters have been developed to a matured level with improved power quality in terms of power-factor correction‚ reduced total harmonic distortion at input
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Toyota and Quality Issues Paper Howard Gripp‚ Melissa Hatfield‚ Leslie Stewart‚ Melinda Hoye Applied Business Research & Statistics (QNT/561) Professor Gerald Heidt University of Phoenix August 2‚ 2010 Toyota and Quality Issues Paper The quality of the Toyota products has not been up to company standards lately as there have been more customer complaints and serious lawsuits from customers. In 2010 alone‚ Toyota has had recalls on 400‚000 Avalons‚ 600‚000 Minivans‚ and over 400‚000 Prius
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Annotated Bibliography 2 Chassin‚ M. (2001‚ April). Executive summary. Retrieved from http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/health_care/204694/exec_sum.htm This article focuses on the quality and cost of healthcare. It explains the spending and budget of America and makes it clear why exactly healthcare’s quality isn’t at its best. This is definitely a useful source for my research project. This source is different from my other sources because it simply lays out the information. This article
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formation of a protocol for total knee replacement‚ Brigham and Women’s Hospital cut costs and length of stay apart from improving pain control and patient mobility. As a standardization practice‚ the new protocol decreased the time spent on decision-making and the number of suppliers. However‚ one of the issues with this change is resistance from surgeons who used different prostheses. While most surgeons followed the protocol‚ the hospital needs to know how to motivate doctors to use the same prostheses
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Robotic Surgery: the impacts of costs‚ access‚ and quality As technology improves‚ surgical robots are rapidly gaining support among both doctors and patients across America. Today more than 900 hospitals have the da Vinci robot which is double the number in 2007. (Freyer‚ 2010) Da Vinci robots were first approved by the FDA in 2000 for prostate removal‚ but now da Vinci robots are used for a variety of other surgical procedures (Freyer‚ 2010). Robot assisted surgery offers advantages such as
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Quality Management Issues of Shipping and Receiving GM588 Managing Quality‚ Michelle Gardner October 16‚ 2011 Introduction Professional Flooring Supply (PFS) is a wholesale distributor of flooring installation supplies and sundries. PFS currently has 15 branches located in Texas‚ Louisiana‚ Arkansas‚ Oklahoma‚ Colorado‚ Utah and Idaho. Each of these locations serves as a distribution point for resale customers as well as a retail store front for flooring installers. PFS was founded in 1977
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