normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: today the issue of quality improvement in health care organizations has become more important than before, but the effectiveness of various quality management models remains questionable. the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the performance of the total quality management model (iso 9001: 2000) im...

Background The inclusion of cost-effectiveness data, as a basis for priority setting rankings, is a distinguishing feature in the formulation of the Swedish national guidelines. Guidelines are generated with the direct intent to influence health policy and support decisions about the efficient allocation of scarce healthcare resources. Certain medical conditions may be given higher priority ran...

Water treatment generally does not specifically address the removal of microplastics (MPs). Nevertheless, plants process water effectively, and number synthetic microparticles in effluents is usually very low. Still, discharge volumes from water-treatment are often elevated (reaching around 108 L/day), leading to daily a substantial MPs microfibers. Furthermore, accumulate primary secondary slu...