Cost, quality, and district management.

Management of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: measuring quality, cost, and value.

Treatment-associated neutropenia continues to represent the most common dose-limiting toxicity of cancer chemotherapy. It often leads to fever and infection, prompting hospitalization and occasionally resulting in serious morbidity, and even mortality, despite modern broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment and supportive care. Neutropenia and its complications may also lead to chemotherapy dose red...

Ontology-Based Data Quality Management: Methodology, Cost, and Benefits

The competitiveness of today’s businesses strongly depends on their data, and the degree of automation in business processes. The business performance of information systems is constrained by the quality of this data. Due to the multidimensional characteristics of data quality, identification and improvement of data quality problems are complex tasks which require knowledge about what are corre...

Perceptions of Time, Cost and Quality Management on Building Projects

INTRODUCTION The clients of the construction industry are primarily concerned with quality, time and cost and yet the majority of construction projects are procured on the basis of only two of these parameters, namely time and cost (Bennett and Grice, 1990). This is understandable since the majority of project management control systems highlight time and cost, and overlook the relative importa...

Cost Effectiveness of Implementing Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses Program in District Faridabad, India

INTRODUCTION Despite the evidence for preventing childhood morbidity and mortality, financial resources are cited as a constraint for Governments to scale up the key health interventions in some countries. We evaluate the cost effectiveness of implementing IMNCI program in India from a health system and societal perspective. METHODS We parameterized a decision analytic model to assess increme...

Target Cost Management And Its Application In Iran's Industry