نتایج جستجو برای: improvement projects

تعداد نتایج: 393195  

2006
Jon Mercer

In the face of an oversupplied world pig market only the most efficient producers will stay in business. By and large these will be the operations that are able to more successfully exploit the genetic potential of their animals. Similarly, only those breeders who are able to demonstrate sustained genetic improvement will sell stock to the smaller number of large producers who are left. Althoug...

Journal: :Rural and remote health 2013
W Maltinsky S Hall L Grant K Simpson S MacRury

CONTEXT Diabetes is a chronic long-term disease with an increasing incidence. There is a need to increase access to effective care and to ensure such care is delivered as locally as possible. The geographical spread of NHS Highland Scotland presents additional challenges to ensuring a skilled workforce given education is normally work-based tuition and assessment. The aim of this pilot project ...

2017
Pedro Ramos Guy Brock Carlee Lehna Pedro G. Ramos

THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THE KENTUCKY PILOT PROJECT OF ALLOWING PRIMARY PCI AT HOSPITALS WITHOUT ONSITE CABG

2004
Lasse Harjumaa Ilkka Tervonen Pekka Vuorio

Process improvement activities in small and medium size enterprises (SME) are challenging due to small number of personnel and projects, people have to perform in a variety of roles. Assigning process improvement activities to the overburdened personnel may be seen as a threat to ongoing projects. Both management and staff should become convinced of the benefits of the improvement actions befor...

2015
Margareth Crisóstomo Portela Peter J Pronovost Thomas Woodcock Pam Carter Mary Dixon-Woods

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of possible methods for the study of improvement interventions. The choice of available designs is wide, but debates continue about how far improvement efforts can be simultaneously practical (aimed at ...

Journal: :IET Software 2015
Marco Kuhrmann Daniel Méndez Fernández

Software processes improvement (SPI) is a challenging task, as many different stakeholders, project settings, and contexts and goals need to be considered. SPI projects are often operated in a complex and volatile environment and, thus, require a sound management that is resource-intensive requiring many stakeholders to contribute to the process assessment, analysis, design, realisation, and de...

Journal: :Information & Software Technology 2000
Osamu Mizuno Tohru Kikuno Katsumi Inagaki Yasunari Takagi Keishi Sakamoto

This paper analyzes cause and effect of the deviation of actual cost (measured by personmonth) from estimated cost for software development project. Although the obtained results themselves may not be new from the academic point of view, they may give a nice motivation for developers to join process improvement activities in the software company and thus become a driving force for promoting pro...

Journal: :Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia 2006
Zailinawati Abu Hassan Peter Schattner Danielle Mazza

A pilot study is one of the essential stages in a research project. This paper aims to describe the importance of and steps involved in executing a pilot study by using an example of a descriptive study in primary care. The process of testing the feasibility of the project proposal, recruitment of subjects, research tool and data analysis was reported. We conclude that a pilot study is necessar...

Journal: :Asia-Pacific population journal 1987
J F Phillips

"This article reviews the experience of two pilot projects in Bangladesh that have addressed the question of how [operations] research can be designed to foster its utilization. In a rural field experiment [begun in 1972] in Matlab subdistrict, research has demonstrated that contraceptive services, if carefully designed and properly implemented, can influence demographic dynamics even where so...

Journal: :BMJ quality improvement reports 2014
Mike Davies Sonia Panchal

One of the key roles of a junior doctor is co-ordinating the care of their patients and communicating with different departments or specialties within the hospital. To do this, junior doctors often spend a lot of time on a daily basis contacting the hospital switchboard in order to locate a required bleep/extension/fax number, or trying to navigate an intranet based directory which can be diffi...

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