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Driving continuous improvement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The quality of improvement depends on the quality of leading and lagging performance indicators. For this reason, several tools, such as process mapping, cause and effect analysis and FMEA, need to be used in an integrated way with performance ...
Bititci, Umit, Nudurupati, Sai
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Effective Assessment Plan Leading to Strong Reform of Petroleum Engineering Graduate Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University has made a lot of significant actions of improvement to its graduate program that was motivated by a systematic SACSCOC assessment plan.
Emadi, H.   +2 more
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Improving hospital flow ‘Ensiab Project’

open access: yesBMJ Open Quality, 2021
Emergency department (ED) boarding is an indicator of less efficient hospital flow and is associated with longer inpatient length of stay, higher readmission rates and increased risk of mortality and medical errors.
Yasser Alotaibi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Continuous Improvement Through Knowledge-Guided Analysis in Experience Feedback [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Continuous improvement in industrial processes is increasingly a key element of competitiveness for industrial systems. The management of experience feedback in this framework is designed to build, analyze and facilitate the knowledge sharing among ...
Geneste, Laurent   +3 more
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Continuous-variable teleportation improvement by photon subtraction via conditional measurement [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
We show that the recently proposed scheme of teleportation of continuous variables [S.L. Braunstein and H.J. Kimble, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 869 (1998)] can be improved by a conditional measurement in the preparation of the entangled state shared by the ...
A. Einstein   +15 more
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Framework for continuous improvement of production processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This research introduces a new approach of using Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) methodology. This approach integrates various tools and methods into a single framework, which consists of five steps.
Karaulova, Tatjana   +3 more
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Coaching for Continuous Improvement

open access: yesThe Rural Educator, 2020
Since 2015, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has provided schools across the state with access to highly skilled instructional coaches. Primarily working in rural settings, these coaches provide a voluntary, integrated coaching model that ...
Matthew B. Courtney
doaj   +1 more source

Framework to Evaluate Continuous Improvement Process Efficacy: A Case Study of a Capital Goods Company

open access: yesKvalita Inovácia Prosperita, 2020
Purpose: This document describes a continuous improvement process assessment system (CIPAS). A continuous improvement process (CIP) was developed to progress through the levels of continuous improvement (CI) defined by Bessant, Caffyn and Gallagher ...
Gorka Unzueta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Continuous Improvement in Continuous Quality Control [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Chemistry, 2016
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” So observed John Ruskin, Victorian writer and critic of art, architecture, and society (1), unknowingly foreshadowing the emergence of quality science in the 20th century. Statistical QC came from Bell Telephone Laboratories, where Shewhart developed the statistical control ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact Assessment of Patient Experience Capacity-Building Program Using Kirkpatrick Model for Program Evaluation at a Regional Healthcare System [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Introduction The patient experience (PX) is central to improving the quality of healthcare services. We launched a PX capacity- and capability-building program at the Armed Forces Hospitals Taif Region, which is integral to our regional healthcare ...
Muhammad Hasan Abid   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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