BACKGROUND European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model is a widely used quality management system (QMS) worldwide, including Iran. Current study aims to verify the quality assessment results of Iranian National Program for Hospital Evaluation (INPHE) based on those of EFQM. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 on a sample of emergency departments (EDs) affiliat...

The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model has appeared to make in driving ‘new’ measurement practices especially in the use of ‘soft’ measures. Although the EFQM excellence model is so beneficial, its measures are in linguistic-vague forms expressed in linguistic parameters, implying so many doubts. Owning to this vagueness frequently represented in the EFQM Model c...

One way to meet the challenges in creating a high performance organization in health care is the approach of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). The Foundation is in the tradition of the American Malcolm Baldrige Award and was initiated by the European Commission and 14 European multi-national organizations in 1988. The essence of the approach is the EFQM Model, which can be ...

Spread the culture of organizational excellence and interest in the industry and service managers and experts to continuous improvement, leading to increased demand for the establishment of the EFQM system. The population of the research is the car pieceworkers companies that in this study, through this collection, those desired companies of car pieceworkers, which the number of them is 46 comp...

The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) business excellence model is widely recognized as a representative theory to improve traditional Total Quality Management (TQM) by expanding the narrow quality-oriented concept into a holistic management concept. The EFQM model, an integrative business system, covers all management activities composed of input, process, and output (Black et ...