background & aims: psychological interventions may improve the quality of life in asthmatic patients through affecting the bio-psycho-social dimensions. this study is aimed to assess the efficacy of cognitive behavioral stress management (cbsm) group education on improvement of quality of life in asthmatic patients. method& materials: this was an experimental study using randomized pre-, post- ...

human activities in the recent years have considerably increased the rate of water pollution in many regions of the world. in this case study, the main sources of wastewater discharging into the gargar river were identified. using river and point source flow rates and water quality parameters measured along the river, the river water quality was simulated using a commonly used, one-dimensional ...

objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the quality of pre-hospital circulatory management in patients with multiple trauma. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2013. the study population consisted of all patients with multiple trauma who had been transferred by emergency medical services (ems) to the central trauma department in kashan shahid beheshti...

Background This study aimed to examine Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) impact on employee job satisfaction.   Methods The study presents a case study over six years following the implementation of the SCQM programme in a public hospital. A validated questionnaire was used to measure employees’ job satisfaction. The impact of the intervention was measured by comparing the pre-i...

The paper describes the author’s experience, gained during a complex and long outsourcing project. The applied Software Quality Program is presented and some ideas for its improvement are given. The problems of project management, software configuration management and maintenance are clarified. A feasible approach to these problems – both incremental and measurable – has been suggested. In conc...

background and objectives: there is a growing tendency in iran’s health sector for adoption of standard excellence models for improving quality in healthcare organizations. the european foundation of quality management (efqm) model is a widely used framework for continuous quality management within healthcare facilities. the purpose of this article is to extend the view of current status of qua...

Software development managers use software quality prediction methods to determine to which modules expensive reliability techniques should be applied. In this paper we describe a genetic programming (GP) based system that classifies software modules as "faulty" or ’~ot faulty", allowing the targetting of modules for reliability enhancement. The paper describes the GP system, and provides a cas...

Software development is an expanding activity. Responding to its needs efficiently, with quality and low cost demands an intense learning, to prevent the repetition of the same mistake twice. One way to meet this goal consists of capturing organization’s knowledge and makes it available to all their members through the use of knowledge management systems. In this paper, we discuss the importanc...