OVERVIEW AND LESSONS LEARNED Jack A. Meyer‚ Sharon Silow-Carroll‚ Todd Kutyla‚ Larry S. Stepnick‚ and Lise S. Rybowski July 2004 ABSTRACT: Hospitals across the country are searching for ways to improve quality of care and promote effective quality improvement strategies. This research study‚ by members of the economic and social research institute‚ identifies and describes the key factors that contributed to the success of four high-performing hospitals across the country. Essential elements of a successful
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www.thetimes100.co.uk Product development through continuous improvement Introduction Corus is part of the Tata Steel Group‚ the world’s sixth largest steel producer. Within Europe‚ Corus is the second largest steel producer with average annual revenues of around £12 billion. The company produces more than 20 million tonnes of steel each year‚ mainly in the UK and the Netherlands. It has a global network of sales offices and service centres‚ employing around 42‚000 people worldwide. Corus is
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BUS 558 Business Travel Improvement May 22‚ 2010 Business Scope Currently‚ our organization does not utilize the internet to make purchases for business travel pertaining to lodging‚ airfare‚ and transportation (car rentals). Our organization currently uses travel agents to facilitate this‚ which is very costly. By implementing a project to replace the travel agency with utilization of internet resources‚ we can improve our existing process of business travel requests‚ implement
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A Systematic Literature Review of Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Web Companies Muhammad Sulayman PhD Student Department of Computer Science The University of Auckland msul028@aucklanduni.ac.nz Supervised by: Assoc. Prof. Emilia Mendes Abstract It is observed that in recent years small and medium Web companies have emerged very rapidly and thousands of such companies are in existence all over the globe. To cater the needs of such companies‚ a new field of research
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Quality Improvement is a process used to find wats to measure or improve quality of care while decreasing health care costs. In the past‚ the belief was that if more diagnostic tests and treatments done to patient‚ would result on increase of quality of care and more patient’s satisfaction. However‚ it is now believed that the focus can be both on improving quality of care and on cost containment. The healthcare’s impressive work‚ made it hard for the policy makers‚ healthcare researchers‚ and organizational
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Quality Improvement Paper Every company should want to ensure that it produces quality products or services. Verizon field technicians use a checklist to help ensure that they are doing quality work. The checklist reminds the technician what needs to be done at each job. Even with a checklist and process in place it could be better. The mangers need to spend more time in the field ensure quality work is being done. Verizon Verizon customer zone technicians install and repair phone lines in
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“GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES” 1. ABSTRACT: Ground improvement is the most imaginative field of geotechnical engineering. It is a field in which the engineer forces the ground to adopt the project’s requirements‚ by altering the natural state of the soil‚ instead of having to alter the design in response to the ground’s natural limitations. The results usually include saving in construction cost and reduction of implementation time. There are number
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Quality Improvement Project Answering the call light (also called call bell a handheld like that is attached to the patient room wall‚ above the headboard of the bed) in a timely manner by the nursing staff in hospital setting is necessary to prevent falls that can harm‚ prolonged stays‚ and unnecessarily increase the cost of healthcare. However‚ researches concerning call light uses as it relates to patient safety‚ patient-care management and patient satisfaction are limited (Meade et al
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Reliability Improvement Reliability of a scale is improved by pruning of weak items. Deleting a weak item from a measurement scale may sometimes lead to jeopardizing scale’s theoretical construct. When this happens‚ the item needs to be redesigned and revaluated. Wording of items in a measurement scale plays an important role in determining its discriminating power. Weak items in the scale are identified by computing Corrected Item-Total Correlation (CITC) (Ferketich‚ 1991) and Item-Deleted Cronbach’s
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performance data originating from the mayor’s office trickles down the entire system‚ effectively nurturing unethical conduct in the affected public offices.The installation of the performance management system‚ referred to as Office of Performance Improvement (OPI) originates the ethical and budgetary concerns of the entire office‚ as the lack of adequate resources in the police department causes a correlated spike in police response time. This prompts the mayor to instruct the Director of OPI to skew
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