PURPOSE Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is the cornerstone in effective management of diabetes. The continuous quality improvement process was used to identify the problem, collect and analyze data, and develop and implement a DSME program for Medicaid recipients, and subsequently, the program was evaluated to assess its effectiveness. METHODS A DSME program consisting of a 1-hour i...

This paper focuses on the concept of continuous improvement processes (CIP) as one type of non-technical, procedural organisational innovation. In particular, the diffusion of this organisational concept among German manufacturing firms will be analysed. The analysis is based on data from the German Manufacturing Survey 2006 which is carried out every two years by Fraunhofer ISI. The underlying...

BACKGROUND Up to 65% of elderly patients are protein-calorie undernourished at admission or acquire nutritional deficits while hospitalized. The aims of this project were: (a) to assess the quality of care concerning nutrition among Belgian geriatric units, (b) to include more routinely nutritional assessments and interventions in comprehensive geriatric assessment, and (c) to assess the impact...

Quantitative methods seek to explore how a system evolves in the dimensions of space and time. The usual notion of space is a discrete one such as the reachable states of a high-level model, but others are possible, such as fluid models. The usual notion of time is a continuous one such as the average duration of activities, as used in stochastic processes governed by the exponential distributi...

Abstract Introduction/Objective The first human case of SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported in December 2019. By late February 2020 evidence community transmission the United States documented and soon it developed into a global pandemic. On March 11, 2020, Mayo Clinic Arizona’s Microbiology Laboratory introduced PCR test for diagnosis infection. Even as testing demands exponentially increased, h...

Software development organizations are focusing on improving the process of software development so that the resultant software is of high quality and the development cost is low from the viewpoint of the competitive advantage. Software process improvement (SPI) is a methodical and continuous improvement approach for the software development processes to develop quality software. SPI establishe...