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Service Outsourcing: Capacity, Quality and Correlated Costs
Production and operations management, 2018This paper studies how to design service outsourcing contracts to ensure fast, quality services from an independent service provider. The outsourcer does not have perfect information about the service provider’s capacity cost (i.e., cost of providing ...
Tianjun Feng, Z. Ren, Fuqiang Zhang
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Hidden quality costs and the distinction between quality cost and quality loss
Total Quality Management, 2001Thus far, it has been usual to distinguish quality costs as prevention, appraisal and failure costs. In this paper, we propose that prevention, appraisal and failure are not the only quality costs. There are other hidden costs that are identified in this paper.
Georgis Giakatis +2 more
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2013
Can patient-centeredness and quality measures coexist? As we strive to protect our patients, do we also dehumanize them?
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Can patient-centeredness and quality measures coexist? As we strive to protect our patients, do we also dehumanize them?
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JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1987
Present day fiscal pressures dictate the need for balancing nursing costs and quality concerns. This article presents logical and organized methodologies for interrelating quality compliance, patient volume, and nursing resource consumption and determining the costs associated with the delivery of quality nursing care.
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Present day fiscal pressures dictate the need for balancing nursing costs and quality concerns. This article presents logical and organized methodologies for interrelating quality compliance, patient volume, and nursing resource consumption and determining the costs associated with the delivery of quality nursing care.
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Quality Costs and Supplier Quality
SAE Technical Paper Series, 1982<div class="htmlview paragraph">Using the popular categories of quality costs: prevention, appraisal, internal failure and external failure, the quality cost elements of a Supplier Quality Assurance program are defined.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">Several methods of using these costs to measure both the effectiveness of a ...
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International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1994
Discusses quality costing as part of an overall Total Quality Management(TQM) strategy and describes and analyses a practical quality costing exercise. Argues that quality costing exercises can provide considerable opportunity to be more efficient whilst enhancing the quality of patient care.
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Discusses quality costing as part of an overall Total Quality Management(TQM) strategy and describes and analyses a practical quality costing exercise. Argues that quality costing exercises can provide considerable opportunity to be more efficient whilst enhancing the quality of patient care.
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Quality costs in practice and an analysis of the factors affecting quality cost management
, 2018Maja Glogovac, J. Filipović
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