background and aims: visit quality is a crucial component of patient-physician interaction that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis and treatment efficiency. the waiting time and visit length are important determinants of quality in the outpatient care setting. thus, the aim of this study was to determine waiting time and visit length and to compare them before implementation ...

No one is too clear about the underlying goals of health sector reforms. The cynical may detect a neo-liberal free market agenda in the rhetoric that emanates from the World Bank’s health report of 1993, but even the cynical need to deal with the issues that health reforms throw up. More recently the Bank itself has recognised the failures of the market approach in health care and argued for a ...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...

This paper presents a consensus-based formation control scheme for autonomous multi-agent systems represented by double integrator dynamics. Assuming that the information graph topology consists of an undirected connected graph, a leader-based consensus-type control law is presented and shown to provide asymptotic formation stability when subjected to piecewise constant formation velocity comma...

Santarelli is an Italian enterprise, currently employing about 100 employees, and it represents a leader in the civil and public building sector. Santarelli acts as general contractor, designer, builder and buyer as well as handling the sale and management of properties for residential and commercial use. Additionally in 2000 Santarelli expanded its business scope by creating a company, named I...