Sentences with phrase «in practice patterns»

Quiz Ref IDLiterature has shown that female physicians may be more likely to adhere to clinical guidelines,1 - 3 provide preventive care more often,4 - 11 use more patient - centered communication,12 - 15 perform as well or better on standardized examinations, 16 and provide more psychosocial counseling to their patients than do their male peers.14 Although studies suggest differences in practice patterns and process measures of quality between male and female physicians, these studies have not examined patient outcomes, what we arguably care about the most.

Differences in practice patterns between male and female physicians, as suggested in previous studies, may have important clinical implications for patient outcomes.

Given that physician sex by itself does not determine patient outcomes, sex should serve as a marker of differences in practice patterns between male and female physicians that meaningfully affect patient outcomes.

The findings could be explained by factors independent of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation, the authors acknowledged, but they concluded the paper with this concern: «We believe our findings may be indicative of a shift in practice patterns away from detailed pre-screening discussions among health care providers who have implemented the [USPSTF] recommendation into their care giving.

«By studying the issue of variation in practice patterns, the Mohs College hopes to improve the quality and value of care we provide our patients.»

These tools affect policy and facilitate changes in practice patterns.

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This year, a federal court found the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Arizona, in the guise of assisting federal immigration enforcement, had engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination.

But Lindsay and other entrepreneurs like Mark Falcone, who co-found tCheck, a company that makes a spectrometer device to test the potency of edibles, says they were kicked off all the processors at once - which is highly unusual based on the previous «Whack - a-Mole» cancelation patterns these processors had practiced in the past.

«This pattern or practice of discrimination denies job opportunities to individuals who are searching for and interested in jobs, reduces the number of older workers who apply for jobs with the offending employers and employment agencies, and depresses the number of older workers who are hired,» the complaint reads.

A disclosure in the company's recent second - quarter earnings report also hints at a potential shift in its accounting practices based on these viewing habits, saying they «continue to monitor whether the viewing pattern is higher than initially expected in the first few months to suggest that we amortize at a faster initial rate.»

And while their numbers aren't huge, there are enough of them to suggest a pattern of behavior that raises questions about whether pre-politics Trump was much of a friend to small business in practice.

Although it's changed over the past few years, the pattern reflects the Love Trade in practice.

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen's business practices, including whether there were any crimes committed as part of a possible pattern or strategy in 2016 of buying the silence of people who could have damaged Trump's candidacy, according to people familiar with the probe.

This is, of course, a best - practice strategy — however, what it fails to take into consideration, is that within an artificial manipulation of a link strategy to avoid filters, there are also other patterns that take effect that Google might penalize in future iterations of their algorithm.

Social Buyerology becomes a best practice and science for listening to and identifying patterns of behavioral changes so that an organization does not find itself flatfooted in responding to its social buyers.

In that moment, it was not my life that flashed before my eyes but a tableau, revealing the ingrained patterns of my long practiced selfishness.

Interesting, is it not, that this focus on the communal «conversion to love,» rooted in personal practices rather than institutional structures or rules, displays the pattern of Methodist ecclesiology?

Third, many women theologians are using insights and practices from feminist theology in order to address broader social and ethical questions confronting the church, such as globalization, care of the earth, and the shifting patterns of work and family.

The rejection of the «clerical paradigm» in favor of a reflection on Christian practice broadly based in the whole Christian community requires a changed concept of pastoral leadership and a new pattern of preparation for it.

«Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship,» the suits allege.

Such differences were denied by the participants in these parishes who, if they countenanced distinctions at all, would confine them to matters of practice (worship patterns, frequency of Scripture reading, baptism) and not faith.

It resulted in a Church that consciously retained a large amount of continuity with the Church of the Patristic and Medieval periods in terms of its use of the catholic creeds, its pattern of ministry, its buildings and aspects of its liturgy, but which also embodied Protestant insights in its theology and in the overall shape of its liturgical practice.

Malone, an independent scholar, has years of experience in student affairs work, including a doctoral study focused on students» relational practices on evangelical campuses and how they differ from broader patterns of campus life in America.

They constitute the Christian thing insofar as they are held together in various patterns of interrelationship with one another in certain practices.

In contrast to some forms of rule - teleology, I understand indirect applications to mean that the comprehensive telos justifies social practices, that is, institutions or patterns of coordination in which the participating social actions can not be described independently of constitutive norms or principles that bind actors whatever the consequences (cf. Rawls, «Two Concepts»In contrast to some forms of rule - teleology, I understand indirect applications to mean that the comprehensive telos justifies social practices, that is, institutions or patterns of coordination in which the participating social actions can not be described independently of constitutive norms or principles that bind actors whatever the consequences (cf. Rawls, «Two Concepts»in which the participating social actions can not be described independently of constitutive norms or principles that bind actors whatever the consequences (cf. Rawls, «Two Concepts»).

Calvin tried to implement concrete practices to advance formation, such as weekly participation in the Lord's Supper, congregational psalm singing, and a daily prayer cycle patterned after the divine office.

Churches need to help people in the art and practice of prayer, but not by denying the reality of the world we live in, not by calling us into patterns or practices we can not possibly adopt without serious mind - bending exercises.

Being a professional driver in a major city, I try to keep informed on the outward practices of the major religious AND community groups, street festivals, etcetera, because they can directly affect my job (through traffic patterns), so it is quite useful.

How do we find means or patterns of Christian life and practice that are faithful to the call for peacemaking in an increasingly violent and divided situation?

We should know by now that almost every major technology introduced in the name of expanded personal choice sooner or later is overtaken by cultural patterns and practices that finally shape everyone's behavior, whittling away almost to nothing the range of the choice.

The Easter narratives from the other Gospels were in practice fitted into the Luke - Acts framework, which also set the pattern for the Christian year.

Each of the Christian practices we explore depends on and fosters our spirituality — for example, keeping Sabbath forms us in rest and gratitude but also draws us into thinking about social justice, family patterns and so on.

Liturgically, it begins with the gathering of those who will invoke, address, and commune, and finally «depart in peace» through a pattern of behaviors that characterize their performance practice.

It was implicit in our discussion in the previous section that practices are patterns of activity that are governed by rule - like regularities: thus the judiciary, the making of western music on the piano, and batting a baseball are all rule - governed activities and hence are practices.

Tilden Edwards, an Episcopal priest who has explored this practice in real life as well as in a book, urges contemporary Christians to be flexible, embracing not a renewed Sabbatarianism as much as a pattern of «Sabbath time.»

As Aurobindo became more active in the Indian independence movement, he also had been practicing pranayama (breath control) for up to six hours a day, three hours each morning and evening, but aside from some psychophysical phenomena such as luminous patterns and figures and a great outpouring of poetry, he had no other results (OH 78f.).

When Christians» worship is understood in this fashion as a «practice» (in the somewhat technical sense of «practice» we have adopted), then James Hopewell's description of a congregation turns out to be unusually fruitful: «A congregation is a group that possesses a special name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally practiced worship but who communicate with each other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story.»

That pattern or movement in the stories about Jesus, that structure, functions something like a «depth grammar» in all enactments of the practice of the public worship of God in Jesus» name, by virtue of which all its culturally and theologically diverse instances bear family resemblances to one another.

We have already seen several such patterns: from source, usually Scripture, to appropriation (on the older model of paideia); from source to application in life and ministry (on a later model of paideia); from source through theory to application in ministerial practice (on the «Berlin» model); and from source through theory to popularization to ministerial application (on a revised «Berlin» model).

Beyond that, in a crazy - quilt pattern, enactments of the practice of worship differ profoundly cross-culturally and within the same cultures because of deeply differing construals of what the Christian thing is all about and, consequently, what the features of an appropriate response to it should be.

«A Christian congregation is a group of persons that gathers together to enact publicly a much more broadly practiced worship of God in Jesus» name, regularly enough over an indefinite period of time to have a common life in which develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story, and that holds its conduct, outlook, and story accountable as to its faithfulness to biblical stories of Jesus» mission and God's mission in Jesus.»

In their reflection of certain interpretations they engage in a practiced and patterned negotiation familiar in the settings of many other human narrativeIn their reflection of certain interpretations they engage in a practiced and patterned negotiation familiar in the settings of many other human narrativein a practiced and patterned negotiation familiar in the settings of many other human narrativein the settings of many other human narratives.

Not that Nehru's concept of the socialist pattern had done much good in practice to the poor sections, but it provided room for it.

Patterns of European settlement and practices of colonization were instrumental in demolishing much of traditional Aboriginal culture.

It thus seems possible that if the forces of particularism, what I will call the «ground bass» of Italian society, do not prevent it as they often have before in Italian history, a differentiated pattern of symbols and practices emphasizing individual liberty, social justice, and Christian charity might emerge to underpin a more legitimate and more effective Italian state than has hitherto been known.

Evangelical programs derive their raison d'etre from their intent to spread the gospel to those who are beyond the current reach of the church, yet their syndication patterns reflect the practice of aiming for those areas of the country already high in church attendance and religious interest.

41 The pattern in this section of formulating Christian principles by which both capitalist and Marxist theory and practice are to be judged parallels the work of Peter Berger in Pyramids of Sacrifice; Political Ethics and Social Change (New York: Basic Books, 1974).

That dynamism is not the dominant pattern in middle - class black churches is a virtually undisputed fact, empirically verifiable by any unbiased investigator in most communities where middle - class blacks practice religion.

The world is still characterized by an enormous range of differences in language, culture, economic patterns religious practices, values, wealth, educational levels, and so on and on.

Whereas many Christians treat such prayers as mere formularies, Jones urges that in these and other practices Christian communities «receive their shape, their patterns of formation and transformation, and their processes of discernment.»