abstract background: with regard to the importance of quality of life in pregnant women, the present study aimed to determine the effect of spouses’ educational classes held for primaparous women referring to hajar hospital on women’s quality of life and pregnancy outcomes. materials and methods: this clinical trial was conducted from september 2011 to june 2012 in the clinic of the hajar unive...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve patient's health-related quality of life with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. seventy patients in pre-operation were randomized into the study, with 35 patients in the experimental and 35 patients in the control group. the demographic information, sf-36 and nottingham health profile questi...

In recent years, there have been radical developments in higher education in China. The most significant of these has been the aspiration of Chinese universities to form partnerships with overseas universities that allow their students to have the advantages of dual-mode enrolment, that is, to get the advantages of courses developed by other universities via distance education in addition to th...

Internationalisation of higher education seems to be strongly related to the aim to improve the quality of higher education. The idea that internationalisation should not be seen as an end in itself but as a means for quality enhancement has been the basis of many policy documents. In the 1980s publications of the OECD presented the quality perspective in particular in relation to the expected ...

This paper presents the quality development initiative set out by Swissuni, the umbrella organisation of the continuing education centres of Swiss universities. It describes how continuing education networks can influence national policies with regard to quality, despite the fact that they may only formulate suggestions for government agencies and for their own members. Swissuni’s strategy rest...

Objectives To identify the level of knowledge and competencies related to quality of care during medical education in sub-Saharan African medical schools. Methods A cross-sectional study design was utilized to examine the capacity of medical schools in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to teach about the concepts of quality of care and the inclusion of these concepts in their curriculum. A ...

South Africa has embarked on a process of education renewal by adopting outcomesbased education (OBE). This paper focuses on the linkages between total quality management (TQM) and the outcomes-based approach in an education context. Quality assurance in academic programmes in higher education in South Africa is, in some instances, based on the TQM model because of a strong focus on the employe...

Although there is evidence that consultation length has increased in the UK over the last 20 years, it is still short by international standards, and is blamed in part by both general practitioners and the public for failure to deliver high quality care. Consultation length is determined by both doctor and patient variables and these need to be looked at when interpreting observational studies ...

Peer review is an efficient tool for staff educators to use in promoting professional staff and student development. The information gathered from peer review can be used by staff educators to develop individualized performance improvement plans to support staff development and increase student learning. Peer review provides a form of feedback that can be used to identify staff clinical learnin...