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From novice to expert: methods for transferring implementation facilitation skills to improve healthcare delivery

Implementation Science Communications, 2021
Background There is substantial evidence that facilitation can address the challenges of implementing evidence-based innovations. However, facilitators need a wide variety of complex skills; lack of these can have a negative effect on implementation ...
Mona J. Ritchie, Louise E. Parker, JoAnn E. Kirchner   +2 more
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Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework

Implementation Science Communications, 2022
Background The Integrated-Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (i-PARIHS) framework and its predecessor, PARIHS, have been widely utilized in implementation studies. Although i-PARIHS developers have focused on creating tools to
Mona J. Ritchie, Karen L. Drummond, Brandy N. Smith, Jennifer L. Sullivan, Sara J. Landes   +4 more
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Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Healthcare organizations have increasingly utilized facilitation to improve implementation of evidence-based practices and programs (e.g., primary care mental health integration).
Mona J. Ritchie, Louise E. Parker, JoAnn E. Kirchner   +2 more
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SQUALE – Software QUALity Enhancement [PDF]

2009 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2009
The Squale project was born from industrial effort to control software quality. Its goals are to refine and enhance Qualixo Model, a software-metric based quality model already used by large companies in France (Air France-KLM, PSA Peugeot-Citroën) and to support the estimation of return on investment produced by software quality.
Bergel, Alexandre, Denier, Simon, Ducasse, Stéphane, Laval, Jannik, Bellingard, Fabrice, Vaillergues, Philippe, Balmas, Françoise, Mordal-Manet, Karine   +7 more
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Exploring the possibilities and challenges in developing the Japanese qualifications framework [PDF]

Higher Education Evaluation and Development, 2023
Purpose – This study aims to examine the rationales for and obstacles to developing a national qualifications framework (NQF) in Japan. From a research perspective, it attempts to propose a model of a qualifications framework in the national context to ...
Ayaka Noda
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The Perils of a “My Work Here is Done” perspective: a mixed methods evaluation of sustainment of an evidence-based intervention for transient ischemic attack

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background To evaluate quality improvement sustainment for Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and identify factors influencing sustainment, which is a challenge for Learning Healthcare Systems.
Dawn M. Bravata, Edward J. Miech, Laura J. Myers, Anthony J. Perkins, Ying Zhang, Nicholas A. Rattray, Sean A. Baird, Lauren S. Penney, Curt Austin, Teresa M. Damush   +9 more
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Ecological quality as a coffee quality enhancer. A review

Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2023
As both coffee quality and sustainability become increasingly important, there is growing interest in understanding how ecological quality affects coffee quality. Here we analyze, for the first time, the state of evidence that ecological quality, in terms of biodiversity and ecosystem functions, impacts the quality of Coffea arabica and C.
Torrez, Vania, Benavides-Frias, Camila, Jacobi, Johanna, Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika   +3 more
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Identifying transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients at high-risk of adverse outcomes: development and validation of an approach using electronic health record data

BMC Neurology, 2022
Background Risk-stratification tools that have been developed to identify transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients at risk of recurrent vascular events typically include factors which are not readily available in electronic health record systems.
Laura J. Myers, Anthony J. Perkins, Ying Zhang, Dawn M. Bravata   +3 more
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Quality enhancement in image enlargement [PDF]

, 1995
Interpolation methods, usually employed in image enlargement, cause a degradation of the image quality in proximity to the edges. In fact, the best interpolation leads to fuzziness effects often due to the image features ignored during the process. In order to have a contained definition loss after the enlargement operation, it is necessary to consider
MARINO, Francescomaria, MASTRONARDI, Giuseppe   +1 more
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Enablers and inhibitors of efforts to reduce Scope 3 emissions – The case of an ODeL university

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2022
Background: The reconfiguration of the South African higher education landscape in 2003 and 2004 had a significant impact on the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Technikon SA (both distance education institutions) which merged to form the ‘new ...
Thelma Louw
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