background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

background: although studies reported diabetes mellitus screening cost effective, the mass screening for type2 diabetes remains controversial. in this study we reviewed the recently evidence about the cost effectiveness of mass screening systematically.   methods: we reviewed the medline, scopus, web of science (wos), and cochrane library databases by mesh terms to identify relevant studies fro...

background: although studies reported diabetes mellitus screening cost effective, the mass screening for type2 diabetes remains controversial. in this study we reviewed the recently evidence about the cost effectiveness of mass screening systematically.   methods: we reviewed the medline, scopus, web of science (wos), and cochrane library databases by mesh terms to identify relevant studies fro...

some of inherent limitations of accrual accounting make the actual earnings and accounting earnings different. so assessment of reported earnings quality has allocated extensive bulk of accounting studies to itself. the decrease information quality such as earnings quality increases information risk and also the investor’s risk. it’ll increase their expected return. since cost of equity is the ...

The process of resolving conflicts among software quality requirements is complex and dificult because of incompatibilities among stakeholders' interests and priorities, complex cost-quality requirements dependencies, and an exponentially increasing resolution option space for larger systems. This paper describes an exploratory knowledge-based tool, the Software Cost Option Strategy Tool (S-COS...

In the competitive market of B2B E-commerce platform, the former entrant has the advantage of switching cost while the later entrant has the advantage of declining IT cost. Considering the variable investment cost due to the improvement of platform quality, the paper develops an IT investment model to investigate the best investment strategy for B2B E-commerce platform under the impact of switc...

For the special relationship between logistics service quality and customer loyalty under the environment of C2C, on the basis of the three dimensions of Operation Logistics Service Quality, Relationship Logistics Service Quality and Cost Logistics Service Quality, the paper analyzed the relationship between customer satisfaction for third-party logistics service quality and customer loyalty fo...

daniels, porteny and urrutia et al make a good case for the idea that that public decisions ought to be made not only “in the light of” evidence but also “on the basis of” budget impact, financial protection and equity. health technology assessment (hta) should, they say, be accordingly expanded to consider matters additional to safety and cost-effectiveness. they also complain that most hta re...

This article addresses the concept of quality risk in outsourcing. Recent trends in outsourcing extend a contract manufacturer’s (CM’s) responsibility to several functional areas, such as research and development and design in addition to manufacturing. This trend enables an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to focus on sales and pricing of its product. However, increasing CM responsibiliti...