today, to increase effectiveness is a strategy for success of organizations and their viability. in health care organization not only service cost- effectiveness is a major problem for productivity and organizational management but also customer-centred is in first priority. because of these reasons, most of health organization trend to patient satisfaction for their viability. if complex proce...

Background & Aims of the Study: Family functioning is among the most important factors ensuring the mental health of family members. Disorder or disturbance in family functioning would cause many psychological problems for family members. Current study intended to examine the effectiveness of transactional analysis group counseling on the improvement of couple's family functioning. Materials & ...

The methods of evaluating change and improvement strategies are not well described. The design and conduct of a range of experimental and non-experimental quantitative designs are considered. Such study designs should usually be used in a context where they build on appropriate theoretical, qualitative and modelling work, particularly in the development of appropriate interventions. A range of ...

in this study the effectiveness of accounting information systems of finance managers of listed companies at tehran stock exchange is evaluated. the results indicate that implementation of accounting information systems at these companies caused the improvement of managers’ decision-making process, internal controls, and the quality of the financial reports and facilitated the process of the co...

Presentation Quality improvement research (QIR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER) share a common goal of achieving a higher-performing healthcare system. Both CER and QIR have grown considerably over the past decade, CER out of the need for more relevant information for clinical and policy decisions, QIR as a result of the increasing attention to the uneven quality of healthcare [1]....

Education on optimal medication use is an essential strategy to improve asthma control. The current authors investigated whether pharmacist interventions, focused on appropriate use of asthma medication and tailor-made to the patient's current asthma control, would improve asthma control in adult patients. A 6-month randomised, controlled, parallel-group trial was conducted in 66 community phar...

Self-assessment is one of the crucial activities within e-learning environments that provide learners with feedback regarding their level of accumulated knowledge. From this point of view, the authors think that guidance of learners in self-assessment activity must be an important goal of e-learning environment developers. The scope of the chapter is to present a recommender software system tha...

A new theory of school effectiveness and improvement is outlined, based on the master concepts of intellectual capital, social capital and leverage, linked with the conventional concept of institutional outputs. Each master concept is deŽ ned in terms of two subsidiary concepts. Twelve speciŽ cally educational concepts are set within this framework to provide the theory. It is proposed that, th...