PURPOSE Board certification is often used as a surrogate indicator of provider competence and quality of care, although few studies have demonstrated its validity. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between board certification status and a set of quality characteristics of pediatric dental practice. METHODS A 30-item questionnaire was developed that collected information reg...

This article was acceptedJanuary 17, 1996 T he purpose of managed care is to provide affordable, quality health care with functional outcomes in a reasonable time frame. Access, quality, cost, and satisfaction are the usual goals that exist in health care (Pope, 1995). Case management is a major component of managed care and is defined as "a coLlaboration process which assesses, plans, implemen...

INTRODUCTION The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recognized that certification and recertification must be based on an assessment of performance in practice as well as an examination of medical knowledge. Physician self-assessment of practice performance is proposed as one method that certification boards may use to evaluate competence in practice-based learning and improvement and s...

The Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, University of Technology Dresden, Germany, was founded in 1993 after the reunification of Germany. In 1999, a reform process of medical education was started together with Harvard Medical International. The traditional teacher and discipline-centred curriculum was replaced by a student-centred, interdisciplinary and integrative curriculum which has bee...

There has ben a major push by firms to seek certification to the International Quality Standards ISO 9000. This heightened interest is not without problems as many managers have misunderstood the value of seeking ISO 9000 certification. A review of the literature revealed a major gap in research in this area of quality management. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the role of the n...

In 2003 a working group established on the initiative of the Centre of Information Technology of Education under the Ministry of Education and Science, has been reviewing regulations for the assessment and certification of educational software. This article analizes the main aspects of the proposed orders. It discusses general structure of quality assurance system, the procedures for the certif...

The process of applying for National Committee for Quality Assurance recognition as a Physician Practice Connections--Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) can enrich even those practices already solidly committed to providing patient-centric care based on evidence-based medical guidelines. The goal is to leverage information technology to transform both operational and patient care procedur...

Increasingly a large amount of data relevant to a wide variety of scientific domains is self-published by scientists on websites and this is proving to be an important resource for the replicability and further development of science. Much of this data is even made available as linked data. However, the self-publishing model provides no quality control on the data, and as such datasets frequent...

The aim of the authors is to describe the economic consequences of structural and org anizational changes of PAIS (Parmigiano agroindustrial system) to afford the total quality management in accordance with the requirements of the quality standards imposed by UNI-EN ISO 9002 norms. The first part is dedicated to the structural changes in fa rm organization required by PAIS. The topic is framed ...

The authors discuss the responsibility of veterinary diagnostic laboratories as suppliers of analytical data for tests on animals and animal products. The guarantee of the quality of analytical data is a basic quality requirement for veterinary certification. It is therefore important for the laboratory to adopt operational quality assurance standards which are recognised internationally. The m...