Susan Muenchow and others, «Local Quality Improvement Efforts and
Outcomes Descriptive Study» (San Mateo: American Institutes for Research, 2013).
Not exact matches
Outcomes of 11,788 planned home births attended by certified nurse - midwives: a retrospective
descriptive study.
ACNM (2005) offers a position statement specific to homebirth and states, «High quality controlled trials and
descriptive studies have established that planned home births achieve excellent perinatal
outcomes.
Outcomes of intended home births in nurse - midwifery practice: a prospective
descriptive study.
[8] Murphy PA, Fullerton J.
Outcomes of intended home births in nurse - midwifery practices: a prospective
descriptive study.
51 Other researchers have conducted
descriptive studies of brief or opinion readability without analyzing the association of readability and case
outcome.
We developed a data extraction tool for the
descriptive coding and extracted information on (1)
study design, (2) sample characteristics, (3) setting, (4) intervention details, (5)
outcome measures and (6) child age at postintervention and at follow - up.
We summarized characteristics of
study populations and interventions and used
descriptive statistics to report
study outcomes.
Two reviewers will independently assess the suitability of the preference - based instruments for measuring
outcomes in palliative care using the ISOQOL, minimum standards for patient - reported
outcome measures (conceptual and measurement model, reliability, content validity, construct validity, responsiveness, interpretability of scores, translation of measure, patient and investigator burden), 43 and the CREATE checklist (
descriptive system, health states values, sampling, preference data collection,
study sample, modelling, scoring algorithm).44 The ISOQOL minimum standards were chosen as these standards were developed from a systematic review of published and unpublished guidance on patient - reported
outcome measures, including the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN).46 To the authors» knowledge, the CREATE checklist is the only published guidance on what key components should be reported in a valuation
study.44 Information on how the contents of the instruments were developed, psychometric properties and valuation will be used to assess the suitability of the instruments for the palliative setting; instruments will be scored on whether the domains or dimensions were developed using input from informal caregivers of people receiving palliative care (yes / no) and whether each of the reporting checklist items has been evaluated for this population (if yes, then a score of one will be allocated) and a total score calculated.
We developed a data extraction tool for the
descriptive coding and extracted information on (1)
study design, (2) sample characteristics, (3) setting, (4) intervention details, (5)
outcome measures and (6) child age postintervention and at follow - up.
This
study collected
descriptive information on the characteristics, experiences and
outcomes of Head Start children and families, as well as the characteristics of the Head Start programs that served them.
Table 1 contains the
descriptives for the psychological measures analyzed in this
study for children at ages 3 and 5 (mean and standard deviations for the quantitative variables and prevalences for binary
outcomes).