This paper describes HIQMA, an integrated, web-based, and fully automated healthcare institution quality management system. The system includes many applications, starting with a quality handbook for the individual be...
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This paper describes HIQMA, an integrated, web-based, and fully automated healthcare institution quality management system. The system includes many applications, starting with a quality handbook for the individual beneficiary organizations and not ending by the development of service guidelines. It is based on a result-proven design approach that enhances medical and healthcare services. The different stakeholders are provided with a common framework for designing, implementing, evaluating and improving these services. HIQMA is scalable in the sense that additional professional development tools based on work service guidelines can be implemented.
Water quality indices (WQI) are useful tools for indicating the suitability of water for an expected use. However, they can suffer from some problems. The objective of this paper was to analyze the development of WQI ...
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Water quality indices (WQI) are useful tools for indicating the suitability of water for an expected use. However, they can suffer from some problems. The objective of this paper was to analyze the development of WQI to determine which parameters are used in water quality assessment and to discuss the characteristics of WQI. To screen articles on WQI, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method is applied to include or exclude articles. Four necessary steps are needed to design WQI: parameter selection, standardization, weighting and aggregation. A set of six methods of aggregations of sub-indices are identified: the arithmetic mean, the geometric mean, the root square, the logarithmic function, the fuzzy inference and the minimum operator. The problems encountered for the overall index are different according to the form of aggregation. They are eclipsing, ambiguity, rigidity or flexibility, adaptability and compensation. The chemical parameters (70%) are the most used in the development of WQI with the physical parameters used at 24% and the biological parameters at 6%. Dissolved oxygen (DO, 87%), total coliforms (87%), biological oxygen demand (BOD, 73%), pH (73%), temperature (67%), turbidity (60%), ammonia (53%), ammonium (47%) and total dissolved solids (47%) are the most commonly used parameters for water quality assessment.
The cause of obstructive jaundice is usually complex which renders its differential diagnosis and lesion localization challenging in clinical *** Positron Emission tomography/Magnetic Resonance(PET/MR)offers complemen...
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The cause of obstructive jaundice is usually complex which renders its differential diagnosis and lesion localization challenging in clinical *** Positron Emission tomography/Magnetic Resonance(PET/MR)offers complementary information from PET and MR in the diagnosis of obstructive jaundice and is becoming widely adopted in clinical *** preserving its diagnostic accuracy,it is important to standardize and streamline the clinical scan protocol of PET/MR in evaluating obstructive *** on literature review and experience of large number of clinical cases from the author group,this article reports an expert consensus on imaging protocol optimization and case interpretation template standardization.
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