EXCELLENCE MANAGEMENT MODELS AND AWARDS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Awards spur excellence in research.

Background: Many patients experience difficulties in following treatment recommendations. This study's objective is to identify nonadherence risk profiles regarding medication (antidepressants, antihypertensives, and oral hypoglycemics) from a combination of patients' socio-demographic characteristics, morbidity presented within general practice and medication characteristics. An additional obj...

Outstanding Employees Honored With Awards for Excellence

Gisela Telis was recognized for making her mark ? online, on the radio and on television ? as a content producer for Arizona Public Media [4]. Telis has received Emmy Awards for her work bringing attention to mental health issues. In her nomination letter, Jack Gibson, director and general manager of Arizona Public Media, wrote that Telis' work "exemplifies the best and most meaningful aspects ...

European Foundation for Quality Management (efqm) Business Excellence Model: a Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) business excellence model is widely recognized as a representative theory to improve traditional Total Quality Management (TQM) by expanding the narrow quality-oriented concept into a holistic management concept. The EFQM model, an integrative business system, covers all management activities composed of input, process, and output (Black et ...

Clinical excellence in psychiatry: a review of the psychiatric literature.

OBJECTIVE The provision of excellent patient care is a goal that physicians would like to achieve in caring for all patients, all of the time. Until recently, clinical excellence had not been defined, and the extent to which this recently published definition applies to the care of patients with psychiatric illness is not known. This article sets out to consider how the paradigm for clinical ex...

Severe Overdose of Calcium Channel Blocker and Successful Management: A Literature Review and Case Report