Sentences with phrase «evaluate research outcomes»

Not exact matches

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sResearch Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sresearch designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

Continued research is needed to evaluate child and parenting outcomes in a broader variety of cultural and socioeconomic groups.

«Research evaluates 18 - month neurobehavioral outcomes in single - family room NICU: Environment of care contributes to both short - and long - term development of preterm infants.»

The McTempo (Models of Care: The Effects on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes) collaboration is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research grouping that has been formed to explore and evaluate different care models used in maternity care.

Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sResearch Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric sresearch designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

The ResQu Index is a reliable instrument to evaluate the quality of design, methods and interpretation of reported outcomes from research about place of birth.

«Since several BACE1 inhibitors are currently being evaluated in clinical phase 3 trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the identification of potential side effects will be of great importance to ensure a positive clinical outcome,» said Dr. Jochen Herms, a Professor of translational brain research at Ludwig - Maximilians - University Munich.

A: One of the roles of this division is to constantly evaluate outcomes and review policy for research and career development and training programs.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

She also conducts clinical research evaluating prognosticators of outcome in patients with liver, bile duct and liver tumors and investigates new imaging agents in pancreas and liver cancers.

Her research areas include evaluating prenatal exposures to environmental chemicals and related adverse pregnancy outcomes, and characterizing developmental risks.

Information technology and new concepts in clinical outcomes assessment are particularly well - suited to evaluating the effectiveness of naturopathic treatment protocols and are being used in research, both at naturopathic medical schools and in the offices of practicing physicians.

In an editor's note that accompanied the study, Dr. Seth A. Berkowitz called the research «an important contribution because it is, to my knowledge, the first large - scale study of coffee consumption to evaluate a mental health outcome in women.»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Another research team at the University of Arkansas was simultaneously evaluating the same program and presenting early findings at academic conferences, but elected to hold off on publishing their results until they could include a second year of outcome data.

After four years of orienting teaching practice towards the tailored and responsive delivery of learning outcomes, we decided it was time for some external evaluation and commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research to evaluate our progress and work with individual teachers and groups of teachers in order to further refine our approach.

To help fill this vacuum, CREDO (formerly known as the Center for Research on Education Outcomes), an independent nonpartisan research group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School DResearch on Education Outcomes), an independent nonpartisan research group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School Dresearch group at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, evaluated the performance of TFA teachers relative to both new teachers and all teachers in the Houston Independent School District.

The handbook is organized according to how program inputs and outcomes have been conceptualized and validated in evaluation research on leadership preparation programs and will help program designers: 1) Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify Measures and Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Improutcomes have been conceptualized and validated in evaluation research on leadership preparation programs and will help program designers: 1) Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify Measures and Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program ImprOutcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Improutcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Improvement.

In order to evaluate their progress in meeting these outcomes, the research and evaluation team developed a survey instrument to assist teachers and teaching artists in self - assessing whether or not these elements are addressed in their classroom.

Quantifying the link between research engagement and school outcomes is extremely difficult, because there are so many steps between teachers «engaging» with research, or undertaking their own enquiry, and the eventual outcomes for children (although evaluating the impact of specific initiatives on children's outcomes is somewhat easier).

In the resulting years, the importance of having «core» reading instruction as the starting point for all students» reading instruction has been affirmed in the research conducted to evaluate many different efforts to improve reading outcomes.

The Rossier research team, led by Center on Educational Governance researchers Drs. Dominic Brewer, Julie Marsh and Katharine Strunk, is tasked with evaluating the effects of the Initiative on student and other important outcomes and with providing feedback to LAUSD and its partners to help them refine their processes.

Her research focuses on evaluating the extent to which public policies and programs improve outcomes for at - risk students.

To answer our third research question, we carefully examined which of several possible methodological and procedural features were associated with better outcomes, although some variables could not be evaluated in each review because of the way the studies were conducted and reported.

Now you should evaluate obtained results, make certain conclusions about its outcome and discuss what future research can be done.

To combat these datamining outcomes, academia is increasing the pressure on publications to institute stricter criteria in evaluating research that purports to identify new factors.

The research would also highlight non-GHG benefits achieved due to the implementation of climate policy, and evaluate the outcome of Canada's emissions if all provinces or the federal government had implemented existing «best - in - Canada» policies (as they came into effect) relative to Canada's emissions target for 2020, using Navius Research's economy and emissionresearch would also highlight non-GHG benefits achieved due to the implementation of climate policy, and evaluate the outcome of Canada's emissions if all provinces or the federal government had implemented existing «best - in - Canada» policies (as they came into effect) relative to Canada's emissions target for 2020, using Navius Research's economy and emissionResearch's economy and emissions model.

«While relatively abundant research has evaluated the effects of public investments in computers for education on education outcomes, more often than not these evaluations fail to identify any positive association between an increase in computer use and better test scores in mathematics and reading.»

And while in recent years the use of formal office memoranda has declined somewhat, giving ground to less expensive alternatives, such as informal email memoranda and oral research reports, the underlying, element - focused predictive analysis lawyers use to evaluate likely case outcomes has not changed.

Specifically, the research team evaluates factors which include, but are not limited to the following: firm profile and reputation, years of practice, education, training, trial experience, case outcomes, peer endorsements, client reviews, professional awards, professional memberships, leadership in legal organizations, community involvement, disciplinary status, and other noteworthy achievements.

Applying a broad range of research, data and human insights to evaluate legal positions, forecast outcomes and assess attorneys» problem - solving capabilities, DecisionSet ® has distinguished itself as a leader in legal decision making.

Hays Life Sciences» Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) team recognises that there is a growing requirement for talented HEOR professionals to evaluate the value of medicines and treatments.

As noted in the UK Medical Research Council guidance described by Craig et al, 61 it is recommended that multiple outcomes are considered in evaluating the effectiveness of interventions which are complex in nature and are likely to result in responses across a diversity of family and child domains.

A «GLBQ Screening and Outcome Tool» has been developed which incorporates identified risk and protective factors and a measure of mental health to be used for both research purpose (validation of current identified factors) and clinical purpose of informing assessment and intervention, and evaluating interventions.

The Postadoption Experience: Adoptive Families» Service Needs and Service Outcomes Child Welfare League of America (2006) View Abstract Provides information about several research studies commissioned by Casey Family Services to examine fundamental postadoption issues, including evaluating the effectiveness of services.

To that end, Imago Relationship International supports research that involves the use of Imago Therapy and any aspect of Imago Therapy that is explicitly described by its founder, research that evaluates the impact Imago Therapy has on individuals, couples, and other systems over a wide range of impact variables including outcome studies of workshops and in - office treatment regimes, neuroscience and biological studies involving Imago Relationship Therapy; and the use of Imago Relationship Therapy with specific diagnostic categories and its effect on positive outcomes.

The Research Outcome Study in Ireland Evaluating Drug Treatment Effectiveness (ROSIE) was the first national, prospective, longitudinal drug treatment outcome study in IOutcome Study in Ireland Evaluating Drug Treatment Effectiveness (ROSIE) was the first national, prospective, longitudinal drug treatment outcome study in Ioutcome study in Ireland.

However, research in the area of parent - child interaction must continue to expand to evaluate not only outcomes in a broader variety of ethnic / racial / cultural and socioeconomic groups, but also outcomes in children of different ages so that families in all types of situations can reap the full benefits of research.

Research on a wide range of mental health interventions has increasingly recognized the need to systematically evaluate the process of implementation and to determine its impact on programme outcomes [21, 22].

Evaluating the effectiveness of premarital prevention programs: A meta - analytic review of outcome research.

For example, research evaluating the impact of infant massage on infant developmental outcomes should also measure mediatory mechanisms such as parent - infant interaction, or stress hormones (cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrin).

Finally, the degree of suitability of the instruments for economic evaluations in the palliative care setting will be assessed by scoring whether the domains or dimensions were developed using input from informal caregivers of people receiving palliative care and whether items from the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) 43 minimum standards for patient - reported outcome measures and the checklist for reporting valuation studies of multiattribute utility - based instruments (CREATE) 44 have been evaluated in this population.

(I) The model conforms to a clear consistent home visitation model that has been in existence for at least 3 years and is research - based, grounded in relevant empirically - based knowledge, linked to program determined outcomes, associated with a national organization or institution of higher education that has comprehensive home visitation program standards that ensure high quality service delivery and continuous program quality improvement, and has demonstrated significant, (and in the case of the service delivery model described in item (aa), sustained) positive outcomes, as described in the benchmark areas specified in paragraph (1)(A) and the participant outcomes described in paragraph (2)(B), when evaluated using well - designed and rigorous --

A number of protocols for evaluation of outcome research evidence have been suggested, and the research reported for DDP can be evaluated in terms of various criteria drawn from these protocols and elsewhere and is found to meet those criteria.