Sentences with phrase «data quality studies»

Sample two will be used for things such as performing trend analyses, data quality studies, and other research on these historical driver records.

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A 2010 study at the University of Texas at Austin found that small improvements in data quality, usability and accessibility can increase a company's annual sales per employee more than 14 percent.

Final patient visits will be followed by completing data entry for the more than 35,000 patient years of study in REDUCE - IT, and typical database quality control measures, known as cleaning.

«We study the determinants of antimalarial drug quality in developing countries using data from the retail market in Uganda.

J.D. Power's independent industry benchmark studies, innovative data & analytics products, and customized advisory services provide insights and help companies improve quality, engagement, and business performance

While one new study on voice assistants compares the quality of different providers» answers, the other drills into Google's data sources for 22...

Although studies haven't shown any significant data to support weight loss, chia seeds are a rich source of omega - 3 fatty acids, high - quality protein, soluble fiber, antioxidants, and calcium.

To the extent that they were warned about anything, they were warned that homebirth advocates were fully prepared to LIE about the quality of the study's data.

«The data and the methods taints the quality of the study,» Janssen said, noting the review includes studies where the qualifications of the caregiver were not known.

These procedures ensure that each study at The Fertility Center of Las Vegas provides quality, unbiased data for us to conduct our research.

We could pool heart rate data following injections for only two studies (n = 186); we considered this evidence to be of low quality due to insufficient data.

The 2 review authors assessed trial quality and extracted data, and contacted study authors for additional information.

The model incorporated data from peer - reviewed studies, actual hospital costs, and utilities to quantify health - related quality of life.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Although the quantity and quality of these interactions are unclear in FFCWS data, these findings are consistent with a 2009 national study (unpublished) reporting that 76 % of US fathers living in households with children age 0 to 2 years of age reported attending a well child visit within the past year.36 As suggested in Bright Futures, 37 well - child visits may be an opportunity to screen fathers for depression and refer them for treatment.

Milk sample categorization by day postpartum without consideration for lactation stage will bias the data captured toward study participants who have progressed further toward mature milk production as these milk samples will be more likely to produce fat globules with suitable mRNA quality.

The MANAstats registry contains high - quality data that uses the gold standard — the medical record — instead of birth certificate data, which research shows is unreliable for studying intended place of birth and newborn outcomes.

There has been slight improvement in study reporting or quality, with 44 out of the 73 trials that contributed data (60 %) reporting an approach to allocation concealment that we considered to be at low risk of bias compared to 26 of the 52 trials (50 %) in the previous review (Renfrew 2012b).

We have great confidence in the quality of our face - to - face survey and look forward to the insights the British Election Study research community draw from our data.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

Analysing data from nearly 200 healthy 7 - 12 year old children and their parents, the researchers studied the relationship between the parents» insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep quality.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

But foreign researchers have criticized the studies, complaining that raw data were not shared, making it impossible for them to assess the quality of — let alone repeat — the work.

The study data do not overtly explain why snacking has opposite effects on diet quality depending on a child's age, but the researchers note that younger children more frequently depend on (and perhaps abide) grownups, while older kids are more often make their own snacking choices.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

Overall, the evidence base remained insufficient: Until now, data on quality of life have not been recorded in any study at all.

The analysis included data from 16 high - quality observational studies involving more than 12,000 women worldwide.

Fires are more prevalent in other parts of the world, but the site's high - quality health, wind, and air pollution data made it attractive for study.

Batalha contends Coughlin and his co-authors are merely highlighting an all - too - common and already well - known problem with many exoplanet claims: Studies often only account for astrophysical phenomena, not problems with instruments that might degrade data quality.

«My concern is that independent trials are on the decline and that means we have less high - quality data to inform public health that are not influenced by commercial interests,» says study leader Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.

In any case, however, high quality nuclear genome data from more than one individual would be necessary to fully investigate this proposed wave of human migration out of Africa, and is an intriguing area for future study.

Before doing the new national study, the authors identified similar trends in Michigan hospitals using data from the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative, led by medical student David Cron and published in July 2016.

«This study has high quality data because it was done in a blinded fashion,» Backman said.

«It is unrealistic to expect the same level of data quality and experimental control from real - world neuroscience studies as we demand from laboratory experiments,» Dikker says.

«Poor quality data informing future of patient care, warns study.»

However, declining human semen quality remains a controversial issue — many have criticised the variability of the data of the studies on the basis of changes in laboratory methods, training of laboratory personnel and improved quality control over the years.

A few of these studies suggest testosterone is linked with increased risk of heart attack, although some critics have questioned the quality of these data.

The model used in the study provides estimates based on vital registration data and from high quality literature on causes of child deaths.

Further, a 2015 Annals of Surgery study (Lawson et al) comparing ACS NSQIP and CMS claims data found claims data is not accurate for making quality comparisons between hospitals.

Future research should look at data from state prescription drug monitoring programs and data on other substance use to get a more comprehensive view of how patients are using opioids,» said Karen E Lasser, MD, MPH, a general internist at BMC with expertise in improving the quality of care for underserved patient populations, who served as co-principal investigator of the study.

The study is also a reminder that while there is more data than ever, the quality and reliability of information still matters.

But the use of simple age cut - offs in these quality measures may contribute to what researchers found was underuse of screening in healthy, older people and overuse in unhealthy, older people, according to the study using 2010 data on 399,067 VA enrollees.

Studies like this are critical for establishing the quality of data coming from citizens.

The study, which compares pre - and post-mining topographic data in southern West Virginia, is the first to examine the regional impact of mountaintop mines on landscape topography and how the changes might influence water quality.

Dr. Squires and her team notes that the limitations of the study come from the known data quality possibly having inconsistencies in reporting across countries and data coordination failures known to affect cross-national datasets.

The study, which used data from the United States and China, is one of the first to investigate the interaction between air quality and the number of stroke cases (prevalence) along with the potential effect of temperatures on the association.

The National Epidemiological and Environmental Assessment of Recreational (NEEAR) Water Study is combining data from rapid indicators with beachgoer interviews to get a clearer picture of the link between water quality and human health.

«Past studies and patient data have shown that we can improve a person's quality of life and chance of surviving end - stage renal disease if we can avoid or minimize the amount of time they spend on dialysis,» says Ankit Sakhuja, M.B.B.S., a graduate of Mayo Clinic Renal Transplant Fellowship.

The WHOI cruise, he adds, which includes researchers from the International Atomic Energy Agency and multiple nations, «can build public confidence in data quality» and build a «broad, common data set» that will be extremely useful for marine scientists studying radiation in the future.

Using data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Multiple - Cause of Death Files (2006 - 2015), US Census Bureau, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, the study modeled associations between county - level drug - related mortality rates and economic, social, and healthcare environments.