Sentences with phrase «quality reporting system»

The model begins with a high - quality reporting system for all students that bases grades on clearly articulated standards for student learning and that provides separate grades for three types of learning criteria: products, processes, and progress.

A variety of webinars relevant to SNMMI, dealing with topics ranging from new guidelines to how to best comply with the Physician Quality Reporting System.

A University of Rochester - led study, published in the August issue of Health Affairs, shows complication rates can vary as much as five-fold among hospitals, prompting researchers to call for the development of a national quality reporting system to improve maternal outcomes for more than 4 million women who give birth each year.

The Office of Management and Budget estimates costs for measurement initiatives, but these estimates focus on the annual burden of entire measurement and reporting programs (eg, Physician Quality Reporting System) rather than the burden of individual measures or the burden for individual institutions.

«Obamacare» introduced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) which (for once) monitored outcomes 6.

Not exact matches

Speaker: Nathan Silva, Air Quality Monitoring Specialist Market Segment: Air pollution monitoring systems Key Capabilities: Pollutant gas analyzers, instrument enclosures, data acquisition and reporting software

To determine what that system would look like, we need only look at what the overwhelming majority of other industrialized western democracies have done in order to, according to the 2000 World Health Organization Report, make their systems far superior to our own in terms of overall quality.

Eagle's «Reducing the Risks of Product Recalls» flash report tackles the tricky issue of recalls in food and pharmaceutical manufacturing and shows how, by acting as quality assurance systems, x-ray inspection equipment can help to maintain product integrity and prevent recalls.

West Liberty Foods maintains product quality through an automated floor reporting system that provides information on yields and other productivity - related measurements.

«Thanks to their relatively homogeneous mass, our products can be detected relatively easily by X-ray inspection systems,» reports Stefan Schindler, Head of Quality Management at Karwendel - Werke Huber.

Whether that's an issue with the system not getting the best out of his qualities anymore or the fact that perhaps his head has been turned amid ongoing transfer speculation, with The Express reporting that a deal has been agreed with Barcelona, is unclear.

MAZON is proud to release «A Tipping Point: Leveraging Opportunities to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Food Bank Inventory,» a groundbreaking report highlighting challenges within the charitable food system and offering promising solutions.

Carol is a member of the Expecting More team that is creating state - of - the - science maternity care decision aids; co-author of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overuse.

Implementation of the Ten Steps addresses all six Aims of Improvement first laid out in the Institute of Medicine's groundbreaking 2001 report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.

This testing information must be reported to all customers in the water system's Annual Water Quality Report.

If the Annual Water Quality Report is not available on the water system's website you should call your water system and ask for a copy.

The 19 reforms fall into five categories: Increasing CPS Powers to Help Children; Improving the Quality of Reporting to the Statewide Central Register («SCR»); Punishing Abusers and Protecting Children; Modernizing the Child Welfare System; and Other Critical Reforms.

A new approach for our schools by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The CBI report has recognised the important link between high - quality education systems and economic competitiveness.

Chris Keates: «It is increasingly important to treat Ofsted's assertions about the quality of educational provision across the school system with some caution... However, notwithstanding these reservations, Ofsted's report highlights key issues that reflect some of the NASUWT's longstanding concerns»

An independent report into the statistical measurement of the UK's public services has concluded that the system needs to be more accurate and should start to measure quality.

The nineteen reforms in the 63 - page package are the result of extensive research by the Department of Social Services into all CPS functions, and fall into five categories: Increasing CPS Powers to Help Children; Improving the Quality of Reporting to the Statewide Central Register («SCR»); Punishing Abusers and Protecting Children; Modernizing the Child Welfare System; and Other Critical Reforms.

Legislative Package Stiffens Punishment for Abusers, Increases CPS Powers to Help Children, Modernizes CPS System, Improves Quality of Reporting

«Despite the concern I voiced yesterday about the speed with which the MRT voted, I believe, on the whole, that the final report contains needed reforms that will place our Medicaid system on a path to long term financial sustainability while safeguarding quality healthcare for New Yorkers in need, the elderly and the disabled.»

Developing a new teacher evaluation system, one of ten recommendations brought forth by StudentsFirstNY in the report, could improve the number and distribution of quality teachers in New York City schools.

... The report was commissioned by the Alliance for Quality Education, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaign slogan.

The process should include broader participation by groups and parties whose safety, livelihoods, and quality of life are affected by decisions about the lake and river system, the report says.

The study found no association between hospital - based participation in the NSQIP and improvements in postoperative outcomes over time, suggesting that a surgical outcomes reporting system does not provide a clear mechanism for quality improvement.

Systems that capture, analyze, and report surgical outcomes are an increasingly important part of the quality improvement movement in health care in the United States.

Within the U.S., the most widely used surgical outcomes reporting system is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), which is coordinated through the American College of Surgeons.

The authors report that subsequently the agreement, which introduced bans on the sale of phosphate detergents, improvements in waste water collection and treatment systems, and reductions in industry discharges, did indeed help to improve water quality.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

The coordinator reports to the director of the research centre and his / her responsibilities include: — Developing a common vision, objectives and strategy (technologies, equipment, human resources, budget, etc.) for the Curie platforms — Overseeing and coordinating facility management (including budget, investments and finances)-- Coordinating technology sharing, upgrading and scouting — Promoting an integrated management information system in collaboration with Bioinformatics and the Informatics departments — Developing and implementing institutional policies and rules — Representing the platforms in main executive and strategic bodies at the Curie RC — Promoting internal and external training activities in state - of - the - art technologies — Supporting fundraising for the platforms (in collaboration with the Grants & Technology Transfer offices)-- Coordinating and boosting dissemination and outreach activities — Facilitating internal and external collaborations and networking — Promoting quality control aligned with Health / safety and Environmental (HSE) aspects in collaboration with the Biosafety and Radiation officers

Under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effects.

A web - based school and district improvement system that is backed by research and provides quality data, electronic reporting, and documentation for Tech news and expert opinion from The Telegraph's technology team.

Yet states have a long way to go before they have the kinds of data systems that will help drive student improvement, according to the latest progress report from the 3 - year - old Data Quality Campaign, which works to improve state systems.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

The report stresses the idea that the quality of education in any system depends in a fundamental way on the quality of its teachers.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

However, aggregate school performance is the focus of state accountability systems, is reported in the media, and presumably is used by parents, along with their own observations of their child's progress, to evaluate the quality of their child's school.

Neither federal nor state leaders have taken steps to build child - care systems that are safe, affordable, and of high quality, according to a new report issued by the Children's Defense Fund.

Your employee onboarding system should make it easy for you to acquire useful data and reports to determine the value and quality of your training material.

The first report, released last year, termed the Danielson Framework «a reliable tool for identifying low - quality teaching» and said it «has potential for improving teacher evaluation systems.»

A report published by McKinsey and Company in 2005, China's Looming Talent Shortage, found that the Chinese system produces students who excel in a narrow range of subjects with only 10 percent of its college graduates considered employable by multinational businesses because the students lack the qualities society needs.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

But the AIR report also cautioned that making Singapore Math work in the United States «will require the same sustained commitment to developing a quality mathematics system that Singapore gave to its reform efforts.»

An assessment system should improve the quality of local tests, standards, grading, and reporting.

«The report is overly long and too descriptive»... «Managers have not implemented a sufficiently rigorous system to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the provision to allow them to set actions to improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.»

The report cites yearly national exams, a new curriculum focused on learning results and a new data driven system of school evaluation as further strategies which fostered higher quality schools.