The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has launched the “IP Program Evaluation Tool,” designed to help professionals assess the resources needed to improve patient ...

Focus groups are a fast and effective way to elicit information and perspectives from a variety of key informants simultaneously. In public health, it is often a standard research methodology that is ...

While the Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool has been a controversial pillar of the President's Management Agenda, elements of it -- such as transparency and solid performance ...

An Office of Management and Budget official defended the administration's program rating tool against criticism that it lacks transparency at a Senate hearing Tuesday, while a legislator lauded the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), in conjunction with the Health Care Compliance Association, recently released a resource document to help healthcare ...

Benchmarking where your program is as opposed to others of like size and capabilities is a game we all play, at least in our heads. Another more formal way to figure out where you are programmatically ...

The Travel and Meetings Society plans to release on Tuesday a free technology tool designed for travel managers to assess their end-to-end set-ups and "identify where specific strengths and/or gaps ...