There is a large body of evidence demonstrating the detrimental effect of long work hours on the performance, mood, and job satisfaction of junior doctors. By extension these effects carry over into the realm of patient safety, compromising the quality of care provision. House officers in the general surgery department of Tauranga Hospital, New Zealand are often required to arrive at work well ...

Ruiz-Vanoye, Jorge A.; Díaz-Parra, Ocotlán; Nolazco-Flores, Juan Arturo; Canepa Saenz, Ana; Hernández, Víctor H.; Mendoza Gongora, Heriberto Quality Function Deployment (QFD) House of Quality for Strategic Planning of Computer Security of SMEs International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, vol. 4, núm. 1, eneroabril, 2013, pp. 39-53 International Journal of Combin...

Two repeated experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of different stocking densities onbroiler performance, carcass characteristics, litter quality and foot lesionsusing 5224 one day-old Ross 308 broilers. In each experiment, a total of 2612 one day-old broilers were allocated in 16 floor pens at densities of 16, 18, 20 and 22 birds/m2 of floor space in an environmentally controll...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven approach, widely used to develop or process new product to maximize customer satisfaction. Last researches used linear physical programming (LPP) procedure to optimize QFD; however, QFD issue involved uncertainties, or fuzziness, which requires taking them into account for more realistic study. In this paper, a set of fuzzy data is used to ...

the economic and market value of environmental goods and services are hidden. among the conventional methods of valuing and economic pricing the environmental amenities, one is hedonic pricing method (hpm) which in terms of economic point of view is based on the hypothesis that people usually determine their environmental consumption preference levels through choosing their houses. therefore, i...

Many quality dimensions are hard to contract upon and are at risk of degradation when the service is procured rather than produced in-house. On the other hand, procurement may foster performance-improving innovation. We assemble a large data set on elderly care services in Sweden for the 1990-2009 period, including survival rates, our measure of non-contractible quality, and indicators of subje...

background: despite many media campaigns by government and private sectors highlighting, water and sanitation treat­ment plans and policies, the public health problems are still common in different socioeconomic areas. the objective of our study was to explore the major public health problems prevailing in two different socio economic areas in karachi, pakistan. methods: a cross sectional surve...