introduction: self-assessment in healthcare is inevitable, like in all other sections. scarce resources, necessity of performance refining, vitality of provided services and quality of services are evidence for necessity of having a proper system of self-assessment of performance in this area. hence, the purpose of present study was to study areas of improvement based on european foundation for...

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of ideation and effort. The human dimension manifests in many ways, with peo...

background: nowadays hospitals have to cope with global changes. they are thus forced to be equipped with learning and learning hospitals. this research was performed to design a model for establishing learning organization in iranian public hospitals. methods: this qualitative, comparative, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009-2010. first, available models of learning organization in ge...

Purpose This study aims to reflect on quality, sustainability and resilience as emerging organisational priorities within total quality management (TQM) excellence. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a conceptual approach based reflection theoretical studies the philosophical foundations of excellence, cornerstones for Bearing in mind that sustainable excellence rests upon combination s...

A recent study identified 7 domains of clinical excellence on the basis of interviews with "clinically excellent" physicians at academic institutions in the United States: (1) communication and interpersonal skills, (2) professionalism and humanism, (3) diagnostic acumen, (4) skillful negotiation of the health care system, (5) knowledge, (6) taking a scholarly approach to clinical practice, and...

These are tutorial notes for LPSS-92: the Logic Programming Summer School organised by the CompuLog Esprit Network of Excellence in September 1992. They are an introduction to the techniques of reasoning about logic programs, in particular for synthesizing, verifying, transforming and proving termination of logic programs.