Developing quality healthcare software using quality function deployment: A case study based on Sultan Qaboos University Hospital

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 408-425

  Ahmed, Mohiuddin ^a   Islam, Rafikul ^a   Al Wahaibi, Salim Khloof ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Oman)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Healthcare software; Quality function deployment; Software quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645003620     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2006.008957     Document Type: Article

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