Six Sigma, a quality-control methodology first developed for manufacturing, is now used by business and organizations of all ...

New study findings show the vast majority of small-scale quality improvement (QI) projects in surgery suffer from poor planning that can doom the effort from the start. To address this challenge, ...

Abstract: In silicon photonics devices, waveguides (WG) with lower propagation loss are always preferred due to their efficiency and performance benefits. One of the primary factors contributing to ...

The objectives of the present study were to develop a methodology that implies the use of an electronic spreadsheet to calculate the financial losses of involuntary days open (IDO; every additional ...