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2001 Michigan Hospital Cqi/Tqm Study, Colleen L. Croxall Nov 2003

2001 Michigan Hospital Cqi/Tqm Study, Colleen L. Croxall

Wayne State University Dissertations

In recent years, there has been significant interest in the application of total quality management/continuous quality improvement (TQM/CQI) within health care organizations. The health care industry, in its quest to improve outcomes with fewer resources, began to look at CQI/TQM as a possible solution. To date, the most comprehensive and enthusiastic response to efforts to improve quality while containing or lowering costs is reflected in hospitals' commitment to continuous quality improvement/total quality management (CQI/TQM). The health care industry, particularly hospitals, has embraced the concepts of CQI/TQM with the belief that adoption will lead to an improvement in both the quality …


Issue Definition And The Opinion-Policy Link: Public Preferences And Health Care Spending In The Us And Uk, Stuart N. Soroka, Elvin T. Lim Nov 2003

Issue Definition And The Opinion-Policy Link: Public Preferences And Health Care Spending In The Us And Uk, Stuart N. Soroka, Elvin T. Lim

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article explores the extent to which yearly changes in health spending reflect yearly changes in public preferences. Time series modelling suggests that health care spending is remarkably more responsive to yearly changes in public opinion in the US than in the UK.A content analysis of party manifestos suggests the significant role of ‘issue definition’ in accounting for this difference. Health care issues in the US have more often been viewed as problems of expenditure, while UK policy-makers have tended to focus on efficiency. Results suggest that the responsiveness of health care expenditures to public preferences in the US and …


Weapons On Aircraft And Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Weapons On Aircraft And Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents Issues to consider in developing aviation security policy on the deployment and employment of weapons on aircraft by aircrew and air marshals.


Identifying Terrorist Motivation And Psychopolitical Impediments To The War On Terrorism, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Identifying Terrorist Motivation And Psychopolitical Impediments To The War On Terrorism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates how the psychopolitics of public discourse on motives of terrorists can impede successful antiterrorism programs.


Trends. Legislation, Bias, And The Funding Of Security Technology And Services, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Trends. Legislation, Bias, And The Funding Of Security Technology And Services, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the funding of security technologies and services, and the costs of potential bias in terms of legislation and procedures.


Announcements, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Announcements, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP announcements pertaining to reader requests, editor nominations, and relevant conferences, as well as online and print publications.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss plus/minus grading, student loans, Dialogue Day, Thanksgiving, tuition, tobacco tax, organizational aid, telephone survey, gubernatorial election and homecoming.


Personnel Security And Leaking, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Personnel Security And Leaking, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the impact of leaks on the viability of security organizations.


Announcements, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Announcements, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP announcements pertaining to reader requests, editor nominations, and relevant conferences, as well as online and print publications.


Biometric, Psychometric, And Sociometric Profiling, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Biometric, Psychometric, And Sociometric Profiling, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article articulates basic Issues in developing security-based profiling technologies.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss plus/minus grading, Thanksgiving, Dialogue Day, online suggestion box, website and organizational aid.


Trends. Non-Physical Approaches To Physical Security, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Trends. Non-Physical Approaches To Physical Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the vulnerabilities of protecting physical assets with purely physical means, as well as the potential benefits of non-physical approaches.


Announcements, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Announcements, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP announcements pertaining to reader requests, editor nominations, and relevant conferences, as well as online and print publications.


Intelligence Support For Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Intelligence Support For Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes an introduction to and critique of intelligence support for aviation security.


Terrorist Victims, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Terrorist Victims, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the varied classes of terrorist victims affected by terrorist operations or their threat.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss Bowling Green liaison, complaints committee representative, class rings, t-shirts, adopt-a tree, constitution, online suggestion box, shuttle shelter, plus/minus grading and dining services.


Bill #03-04-F - Organizational Aid, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Bill #03-04-F - Organizational Aid, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Disbursement of funds to student organizations.


Resolution 03-03-F - Notification Of Dining Services Or Facilities Hour Changes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Resolution 03-03-F - Notification Of Dining Services Or Facilities Hour Changes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution that students be notified of facility hour changes two weeks in advance.


Bill #03-04-F - Organizational Aid, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Bill #03-04-F - Organizational Aid, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Disbursement of funds to student organizations.


Resolution 03-02-F - Plus / Minus Grading System, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Resolution 03-02-F - Plus / Minus Grading System, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution against plus / minus grading system.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2003

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss committee meetings, homecoming, Campus Safety Walk, website, promotional items and signs.


Why The Destruction Of History Makes Sense, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Why The Destruction Of History Makes Sense, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a political psychology of the construct of history.


Data Mining And Mining Disasters: Terrorism Information Awareness, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Data Mining And Mining Disasters: Terrorism Information Awareness, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies problems with data mining approaches to antiterrorism and counterterrorism.


Announcements, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Announcements, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP announcements pertaining to reader requests, editor nominations, and relevant conferences, as well as online and print publications.


Counteracting Anti-United States Government Images In The Muslim World, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

Counteracting Anti-United States Government Images In The Muslim World, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The Muslim World is both a social construct and a phenomenological concept—without geographical boundaries. But United States Government (USG) efforts to counteract USG negative images perceived by denizens of the Muslim World seem to be addressing the space-time of geography but not the social and phenomenological elements from which these images spring.


The Psychology Of Intelligent Video Analysis, Ibpp Editor Oct 2003

The Psychology Of Intelligent Video Analysis, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article examines issues surrounding software-enhanced video analysis in an intelligence context.


Political Barriers And The Transmission Of Monetary Policy Across States: The New England Antebellum Banking Market, Andrew J. Economopoulos Oct 2003

Political Barriers And The Transmission Of Monetary Policy Across States: The New England Antebellum Banking Market, Andrew J. Economopoulos

Business and Economics Faculty Publications

The New England antebellum banking market was examined to understand the interaction of political ideology and economic forces. With each state controlling bank entry, hence the money supply, political ideology could impede the supply of money within a state. However, the monetary forces from neighboring states may have influenced the degree to which parties held true to their political ideology. The results indicate that political ideology was an effective barrier in two of the six states, while three states were responsive to neighbor states' monetary policy regardless of political ideology. These states responded by creating new banks, raising existing capital …


The Politic 2003 Fall, The Politic, Inc. Oct 2003

The Politic 2003 Fall, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.


Mlgpa News (Fall 2003), Maggie Allen Oct 2003

Mlgpa News (Fall 2003), Maggie Allen

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.


Politics Of Europe Syllabus, Steven Alan Samson Oct 2003

Politics Of Europe Syllabus, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.