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One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis?
Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2020Developing a universal quality standard for thematic analysis (TA) is complicated by the existence of numerous iterations of TA that differ paradigmatically, philosophically and procedurally.
Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties.
Panu Poutvaara, Tuomas Takalo
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Quality, quality, and more quality [PDF]
Physics World, 1994 The concept of quality has gained a precise meaning and ever increasing significance in industrial circles. It is understood less exactly in everyday life, but organizations involved in services, including universities and publicly funded research laboratories, are now having to get to grips with the idea in some depth.
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Quality guidance and quality formation
Food Quality and Preference, 1996Abstract This paper presents an extension of the quality guidance model of Steenkamp and Van Trijp that includes consumer quality formation processes. Quality expectations and quality experiences are seen as antecedents of perceived overall product quality. The conceptual model is applied using LIS-REL to a data set on Danish butter cookies.
Poulsen, Carsten Stig +4 more
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Industrial and Commercial Training, 1993
Considers a background to quality and the reasons why total quality management programmes tend not to produce the results normally expected of them. This is essentially due to the impact on the organization and its goals of unconscious predispositions of individuals and groups to maintain the status quo and to “push back” from change and whether or not
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Considers a background to quality and the reasons why total quality management programmes tend not to produce the results normally expected of them. This is essentially due to the impact on the organization and its goals of unconscious predispositions of individuals and groups to maintain the status quo and to “push back” from change and whether or not
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Measuring the Quality of Trials
JAMA, 1999PHYSICIANS SEEKING THE BEST INFORMATION ABOUT PARticular interventions often turn to the results of metaanalyses. Meta-analyses, if done correctly according to explicit rules, will include all relevant studies that meet specified criteria, even those unpublished, to produce an unbiased estimate of the intervention’s worth.
Drummond Rennie, Jesse A. Berlin
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Quality: A cylinder of quality
Manufacturing Engineer, 1993Nicola Shaw and Keith Ridgway describe how Pareto analysis and a combination of plant and laboratory based experiments were used to investigate quality problems during the manufacture of high pressure gas cylinders, developing a checklist for the use of the Taguchi method.
Nicola Shaw, Keith Ridgway
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2020
Over the past decade, there have been substantial efforts to reduce the rate of medical errors and improve the overall quality of healthcare. Nonetheless, despite improvements in access to healthcare, higher utilization of healthcare services, and rising costs, there has been a limited association between quality metrics and consistent improvement in ...
Saahil A. Jumkhawala +2 more
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Over the past decade, there have been substantial efforts to reduce the rate of medical errors and improve the overall quality of healthcare. Nonetheless, despite improvements in access to healthcare, higher utilization of healthcare services, and rising costs, there has been a limited association between quality metrics and consistent improvement in ...
Saahil A. Jumkhawala +2 more
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Quality, Quality Control, and Quality Assurance
1990One of the strongest trends in modern society is the continuing evolution from a manufacturing to a service-oriented economy. The desirability of this may be arguable, but the fact remains that a smaller and smaller percentage of the work force is directly involved in manufacturing goods, and an increasingly larger percentage is concerned with ...
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