Quality improvement programmes

Conduet quality improvement programmes as required Create and utilize supplier quality ratings. 

For almost all softwoods and low-to-medium density hardwoods increasing wood density has been ranked above all other desirable objectives in traditional wood quality improvement programmes. Basic density provides an index of wood quality to which all end users are able to relate. To the sawmiller a high density indicates the timber will be stiff and strong to the pulpmill it indicates that a given volume of wood will yield more pulp than would a low-density timber. But too high a basic density (> 600 kg m ) - more a problem with some hardwoods - is as undesirable as too low a basic density (< 400 kg m ) - more a problem with softwoods (also Paulownia and Populus sp.). For woods above 600 kg m", furniture... 

From what we know, no quality improvement programme is superior and real sustainable improvement might require implementation of some aspects of several approaches - perhaps together, perhaps consecutively. We just do not know which to use, when to use them, or what to expect. 

Denmark No Hospital (in addition to the HSOPS a pilot versions of the NHSOPS was used in nursing homes) European Society for Quality in Healthcare, Office for Quality Indicators, The Danish National Clinical Quality Improvement Programme, Central Denmark Region Solvejg Kristensen, Jan Mainz (Ollgaardm et al. 2011) Master Thesis... 

One very effective way to raise quality consciousness and determine the needs of a quality improvement programme is through an opinion survey. Thus, this was used as a start in the process of gaining ownership and commitment to the changes that were to be made. Other ways of helping the workforce to gain ownership of the process were built into the fundamental design and these will be described later in the chapter. Nevertheless, before the opinion survey could be carried out a clear letter of intent had to be delivered to the whole workforce. 

C5 Have customers views changed as a result of the previous quality improvement programmes ... 

McKeown, P., (1992), "Implementing quality improvement programmes", Robotics Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 9 No. 4/5, pp. 311-20. 

To improve further the quality of pesticides used in public health, WHO should ensure the wide distribution of WHO specifications and should strengthen and expand pesticide quality control programmes. For reasons of human and environmental safety, efficacy and economy, pesticide products of good quality are essential. 

Two parallel improvement programmes have been started in 1986 for the development of RMs and possibly CRMs for the quality control of microbiological determinations. The first project focused on target bacteria important for monitoring food of which the CRMs are fully described in chapter 7 the second project dealt with water contaminants. These studies have been described in details elsewhere [35] and are summarised below. The projects had two objectives ... 

The Safer Patients Initiative (SPI) is one of the most ambitious programmes of safety and quality improvement yet attempted. It was ambitious partly in scale, in that 24 hospitals were involved in total, but more in the speed of implementation and the bravura of the objeaives. Studies in many countries have shown that about 10% of patients are harmed in hospitals and that there is little sign of any change over time. Yet the SPI programme boldly set out to achieve a 50% reduction in adverse events in two years, as well as a range of other changes. No one knew whether this was achievable or simply naive SPI was, in the best sense, a gigantic experiment. 

Burnett, S., Berm, J., Pinto, A. et al. (2010) Organisational readiness exploring the preconditions for success in organisation-wide patient safety improvement programmes. Quality and Safety in Health Care (in press). 

The second edition of this book is very different from the first, reflecting developments in both the field and my own understanding. In 20051 was able to write that most safety improvement programmes were, to my mind, rather haphazard and without defined direction or purpose. That was true then, but no longer. The entire second half of this book discusses how healthcare can be made safer and contains a host of examples and illustrations of improvements to the safety and quality of care. 

IV. 17. The quality assurance programme should be subject to regular review by the management relative to the activities for which they have responsibility. Measures should be included to remedy any deficiencies discovered or to introduce any improvements recommended. 

Whilst it is important to assess the costs of initiatives to improve quality and safety, assessment of cost effectiveness may be difficult if safety culture is a proxy for a panoply of assumed benefits. Economic models have been used to estimate benefits from quahty and safety improvement programmes (Walker et al. 2010), and these can tend to black box explanations of how intervention A results in impact B . In the Enghsh NHS in recent years the requirement... 

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