Purpose This study aims to establish a rigorous model that can pragmatically evaluate the facilities management (FM) performance of hospitals. Design/methodology/approach Among applicable indicators were identified from extant literature, focus group shortlisted ten key (KPIs) in four categories (safety, physical, financial and environmental) verified their practicality. Using analytic network ...

Background Performance evaluation is essential to quality improvement in healthcare. The current study has identified the potential pros and cons of external healthcare evaluation programs, utilizing them subsequently to look into the merits of a similar case in a developing country.   Methods A mixed method study employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniqu...

Article history: Available online 7 January 2013

In this paper, we introduce a statistically efficient method f o r detecting ellipses in a n image. Given a set of digital arc segments, we introduce geometric criteria t o select possible pairs of arc segments belonging to the same ellipse. T h e selected arc pairs are subsequently validated or rejected based o n certain statistical criteria via hypothesis testing. The advantages of our techni...