Sentences with phrase «not measure every outcome»

Unfortunately, state tests do not measure every outcome parents and taxpayers (and students) expect from schools, and cost is a factor in determining what gets measured.

Not exact matches

Since value depends on results, not inputs, value in health care is measured by the outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to value is a central challenge.

When it's hard to measure business outcomes, marketers use metrics that stand in for those numbers: activity not results, quantity not quality, efficiency not effectiveness.

But if we measure not by absolute outcome but by reaching your potential, we all have the same opportunity.

Managers must understand how to measure and account for outcomes while building connections with employees when they can't see them.

Yet the legal review of the trade measure had not been completed and, as of Thursday morning, White House advisers were still discussing various outcomes for tariff levels and which countries could be included, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

With such a program it is not possible to hide from participants whether or not they received the intervention and outcome measures rely on self - reports of events that may have occurred a few years in the past.

Our actual expectation is that the completion of the current market cycle is likely to wipe out the entire total return of the S&P 500 — in excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to roughly October 1997; an outcome that would require a market retreat no larger than it experienced in the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In History).

Investors» misperceptions about what impacts their outcomes often make them spend too much time measuring what doesn't matter and not enough time on what does.

Each is apt to measure results not by statistical outcomes, but by one lost sheep at a time.

Obviously, one could form four such sets of products of possible spin - values — not by considering N simultaneous double spin - measuring experiments, but by considering the possible outcomes of a set of N serial experiments yet to be performed, in each of which it is possible to decide upon the orientation of the spin - measuring devices after the two neutrons have ceased to interact.

But there isn't yet clear scientific data that measures how much of a difference Baby College makes in outcomes for children.

This study did not examine that outcome, nor did it measure how many newborns had low APGAR or required resuscitation.

Because none demonstrated a clinically significant or relevant improvement in safety, range of motion including extension, or other outcome measures, and given the expense, postoperative bracing was not included as part of the original or revised MOON protocol.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

Nonetheless, some experts caution that asking voters to consider two referendum questions on the November ballot might not produce the desired outcomes for either organization, in particular, if those casting ballots fear that supporting both measures would mean higher taxes.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

Two reviews do not report summary measures of effectiveness but suggest that parent training has a positive effect on children's behaviour problems, parental well - being and social outcomes [15] and a positive effect for young children with conduct disorder [16].

Other outcome measures were reported, including a measure of maternal satisfaction in one study of 15 women, but there were not sufficient numbers to allow us to draw any conclusions.

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.

Studies had to be case control for the purpose of the statistical analysis; have breastfeeding as a measured exposure and leukemia as a measured outcome; include data on breastfeeding duration in months, including but not limited to, 6 months or more (where relevant data were unavailable in the publication, the authors of the studies were contacted); and been published in peer - reviewed journals with full text available in English.

Confounding happens when something NOT measured is associated with both the intervention and the outcome.

There was not enough difference in the two groups (nor enough measured outcomes) for one to expect much more.

Other measures have yet to find acceptance, but it is unlikely that a single measure will ever be satisfactory for a process that involves mother and baby and for which the end result is not the only outcome that matters.

Given the ambiguity surrounding the concept of satisfaction, it was not surprising to find inconsistency in the instruments, scales, timing of administration and outcomes used to «measure» satisfaction across studies.

«While SNE supports breastfeeding and the principles on which this law was drafted, we are concerned that the measures would not have the intended outcome, and could even result in negative health impacts.»

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing 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.

Getting comparable statistics is difficult as the statistics for different countries may use different samples (including or not those who receive lesser sentences or various forms of caution), measure different outcomes (re-arrest, re-conviction or re-imprisonment).

You should be able to show what measures you intend to track and what tools you currently have in place to track them, even if you do not have the data to show where your outcomes stand.

If the aspiration is excellence, how can we measure whether it's being achieved and what happens when the government's well - intended goals of improving health outcomes don't actually occur.

We will measure the things that really count: reoffending levels compared to a predicted rate; employment outcomes for prisoners; whether or not the offender went into permanent accommodation; and what progress was made on basic literacy and key skills.

Ms May said: «Whilst we would not wish to pre-judge the outcome of the review, both parties in the coalition are clear that the 28 day maximum period should be a temporary measure and one that we will be looking to reduce it over time.»

«The outcome is unacceptable by any measure, and an issue that was not politicized in the extreme in the past has now been turned into a political football,» the mayor added.

«Current practices do not contribute to scientific progress because the data from the procedures are unsuitable for follow - up research to measure outcomes.

«We don't think that traffic accidents are the main outcome; they happen to be the outcome we can measure.»

While the treatment did have some favorable effects, in the main measure of outcome — measured with a cognitive test called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit compared with placebo.

«The follow - up period was relatively short — six weeks — and the study was not statistically powered to measure clinical outcomes,» said Tindle, who served as the lead study physician while working at the University of Pittsburgh through the summer of 2014.

The pharmaceutical measures were not associated with the other health outcomes studied.

However, in analyses that accounted for important patient characteristics such as age, sex, comorbidities, and the reason for hospitalization, the quality of care of the discharging hospital and SNF facility characteristics, outcomes did not vary meaningfully across SNFs that differed in staffing ratings or their performance on clinical measures related to pain or delirium.

The researchers found that the primary measured outcome, change in peak oxygen uptake (reflects mechanisms by which iron repletion is expected to improve systemic oxygen delivery and use) from study entry to 16 weeks did not significantly differ between the two groups.

And why, if physicians» cognitive pitfalls are so predictable and the benefit of measuring outcomes so compelling, can't our vaunted medical schools (including Harvard) simply teach success?

Contrary to popular practice, a measure of the heart's pumping function known as «left ventricular ejection fraction» is not associated with the long - term outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients, a UCLA - led study of Medicare patients has found.

At the same time, he says, the Hamilton scale that measures outcomes doesn't capture the many aspects of well - being antidepressants promote.

The effectiveness of current approaches can also be examined, for example increases in Florida manatee deaths due to collisions with watercraft are shown not to be an inevitable outcome from the increasing numbers of boats found on waterways, since the charts indicate that mortality levels can be significantly stabilised with sensible waterway traffic measures.

«Better outcome measures needed for clinical trials for Fragile X Syndrome: Assessments not keeping up with clinical trial advances.»

«While the present report suggests that optimal outcome measures for FXS are not yet fully developed, the recent failures of clinical trials in the FXS treatment field represent an opportunity to implement novel study designs and methodologies,» concludes Budimirovic.

The outcome of the experiment depends on what the physicists try to measure: If they set up detectors beside the slits, the photons act like ordinary particles, always traversing one route or the other, not both at the same time.

He said: «While we accept that there may be longer term benefits of the scheme which we can not yet measure it appears that the Quality and Outcomes Framework has failed to reduce mortality rates since 2007.

Social support was negatively associated with distress by several studies; the review found that several different measures of social support (the tendency to use a partner, friends and / or family when experiencing difficulties and distress), were associated with far better emotional outcomes, both for the women who got pregnant and those who didn't.

When the ACS implemented its model for measuring surgical outcomes in adult surgery in 2004, it quickly became clear that, while that system would be useful in an adult setting, it couldn't be used by pediatric surgeons.