This report retrospectively examines the structure of an emerging community-academic participatory research (PR) partnership that was not sustainable, despite attempts to adhere to PR principles and demonstrable success in research outcomes. The influence of community and academic parent organizations on the PR process and outcomes is presented in the context of the Donabedian Model. We dissect...

David Blumenthal, Quality of Health Care, Part 1: Quality of Care: What Is It? New England Journal of Medicine 335(12):891-894. 1996. • quality of care is hard de ne: • Donabedian (1980): care which is expected to maximize an inclusive measure of patient welfare, after one has taken account of the balance of expected gains and losses that attend the process of care in all its parts • American M...

To promote health services research in stroke rehabilitation, we gathered information about stroke rehabilitation structures, processes, and outcomes (SPO), using extant databases and the Donabedian theoretical model of health services evaluation. We found that, in the United States, over S3.6 billion was spent by third-party payers in 1992 on rehabilitation, including stroke. Total disability-...

The healthcare quality movement can trace its origins back to the man considered to be the architect of healthcare quality, Avedis Donabedian (1919–2000), who did his major work on defining quality in healthcare from the 1960s through 1985, and who published three seminal volumes, entitled Explorations in Healthcare Quality and Monitoring between 1980 and 1985 (21–23). Donabedian first classifi...

OBJECTIVES to demonstrate the scientific knowledge developed on lean thinking in health, highlighting the impact and contributions in health care and nursing. METHOD an integrative literature review in the PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, Emerald, LILACS and SciELO electronic library databases, from 2006 to 2014, with syntax keywords for each data base, in which 47 articles were select...

Information and communication technology (ICT) applications in logistics supply chain management (SCM), which aim to improve competitive advantage performance are lacking Nigeria's industry. In this study, factors influencing ICT uptake across four distinct industries Nigeria were sought, using systematic multiple case studies of nine selected local third-party operators, Nigeria. Using the Don...

Sağlık hizmetleri kavramı kapsamlı bir konudur. hizmetlerini sunan kurumların çokluğu kurumlar arasında rekabetin artmasına, bu rekabet varlığı da kaliteli hizmet sunumunun önemine neden olmaktadır. M.Ö. 2000’li yıllarda hayatımıza giren kalite kavramı, 1980-90’lı yıllarla birlikte Toplam Kalite Yönetimi olgusuyla anlam kazanarak günümüze kadar ulaşmıştır. Bu çalışmayla; yönetim kavramına, yöne...

سابقه و هدف: ورود گونه­­ های ماهی مهاجم دراکوسیستم ­های آبی، سبب بروز انواع اثرات منفی اکولوژیکی اقتصادی-اجتماعی می ­­شود. اولین گام در تجزیه تحلیل مخاطرات ناشی از گونه­ غیر­بومی، شناسایی خطر است بر این اساس ابزارهای متعددی برای ارزیابی خطرات تهاجمی غیربومی به منظور پشتیبانی تصمیم گیرندگان گونه ­­ها ایجاد شده است. هدف پژوهش قدرت تیلاپیای شکم قرمز (Coptodon zillii) حوضه آبریز تالاب شادگان (حوضه‌...