In this brief review, written from the perspective of a physician-leader who has fostered the development of comprehensive quality improvement efforts at two academic medical centers, I review the need for improvement, some conceptual barriers that must be overcome, the goals of a comprehensive quality improvement (QI) effort, some of the results we have obtained, and some observations on how t...

This study explores and compares academic perspectives of quality assurance and its procedures to evaluate undergraduate hospitality, tourism and leisure programmes (HTLPs) in both the UK and Taiwanese higher education systems. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted to identify academic key concerns and issues about HTLP quality. Additionally, a questionnaire survey was used to a...

recently, use of research, theory, evidence-based practice (ebp), and quality improvement (qi) has increased dramatically in the professional manuscripts and discourses of the health related literature. however, inadequate knowledge and inability to recognize the differences between these processes have led to uncertainty in some of these practices. elucidation of such processes is of paramount...

in their 2016 article, saltman and duran provide a thoughtful examination of the governance challenges involved in different care delivery models adopted in primary care and hospitals in two european countries. this commentary examines the limited potential of structural changes to achieve real reform and considers that, unless governance arrangements actually succeed in penetrating organizatio...

37 Abstract— Educational Data mining is a recent trend where data mining methods are experimented for the improvement of student performance in academics. The work describes the mining of higher education urban and rural students’ related attributes such as improvement, behavior, attitude and relationship. The data were collected from Dr.Ambedkar Government Arts College in terms of the mentione...