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Shordy following release of the To Err is Human report exposing serious threats to patient safety, the Institute of Medicine (10M) released a second report, Crossing the Quality Chasm,' which revealed other problems in our health care system. Not only was rhe health care system shown to be zmm!e, with needless numbers of patient deaths and injuries, it was found to be inef jective, with an over...

In this work we propose, for an environment where multidimensional queries are made over multiple Data Marts, techniques for providing the user with quality information about the retrieved data. This meta-information behaves as an added value over the obtained information or as an additional element to take into account during the proposition of the queries. The quality properties considered ar...

Background The main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the Iranian context.   Methods Exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in Iranian hea...

Using a psychometric methodology the present study explored the associations between natural environments and experiential feeling states. The effects of the frequency of participants‟ (N = 90) experience of the natural environment and of the location of their childhood upbringing were also investigated. Ten natural environments mapped on to an orthogonal two-component experiential structure la...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the proposition that residential environment can affect mental health. AIMS To study the degree to which common mental disorder clusters according to postcode units and households. To investigate whether contextual measures of residential environment quality and geographical accessibility are associated with symptoms of common mental disorder. METH...

Teaching is one of the most important factors affecting any education system. Many research efforts have been conducted to facilitate the presentation modes used by instructors in classrooms as well as provide means for students to review lectures through web browsers. Other studies have been made to provide acoustical design recommendations for classrooms like room size and reverberation times...