Sentences with phrase «of outcome standards»

Not exact matches

I'm committed to the project of figuring out the best possible standards for corporate structures and behaviours, and I hope that better understanding will lead, indirectly, to better outcomes.

The outcome of any conflict in the Middle East seems to have standard market reverberations; the price of oil rises, investors flock to safe havens such as gold and the American dollar.

These positive outcomes include high productivity and standards of living, business research and development activity, and business formation and venture capital activity.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

The DCC strives for a similar outcome, where holders of the DCC certification can present to clients that they are held to a higher standard of knowledge and ethics.

Most of the standard readings of Gadamer ignore the emphasis on the outcome of hermeneutics: the personal encounter with the voice of Being.

This worthwhile collection, the outcome of a «Trinity Summit» held in New York at Easter 1998, differs from standard current books on the Trinity (see previous review) in two ways.

[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

Whether inflation rises or the Federal Reserve Bank uses its power over interest rates to limit the potential inflationary impact of the falling dollar, the ultimate outcome of our recent overdependence on foreign saving will be a lower standard of living (or slower increases in living standards), such that decent levels of retirement income (private and public) can not be maintained.

Without an invitation, and with only a legal threat, the ACLU was able to force the school board the change its policy, dictate the outcome of the controversy, and lower societal standards.

Procedure takes precedence over substantive precepts and standards, not because procedures are uniquely required in plural societies — all societies require procedures — but because the rhetoric of procedure is required to justify outcomes between parties whose erstwhile religions are different.47 The rhetoric of procedure thus becomes the new common or civil religion.

Based on millions of dollars in research, MSA's program can accurately predict cooked beef outcomes as assessed by consumers, and manage the factors contributing to those quality standards at ranches throughout the nation.

Mr Joyce said the report contained data which shows more than 99 per cent of livestock exported have experienced a positive welfare outcome since comprehensive welfare standards spanning the entire supply chain were introduced in 2011.

«Given these unexpected outcomes related to our early ambitions, standards bodies are looking for innovations to overcome the shortcomings of past approaches.

We examined outcomes following the implementation of employer - wide vending standards, designed to increase healthy snack and beverage options, on the proportion of healthy v. less healthy sales, sales volume and revenue for snack and beverage vending machines.

In other pretty successful outcomes, the likes of Romelu Lukaku or Kevin De Bruyne, who do not quite match the standards set by the hierarchy, are sold at handsome profit.

Promising new treatments can be (and are) sometimes unfairly dismissed as not meeting these standards when the complexity / variability of post concussion syndromes makes it hard to construct comparable groups to look at aggregate outcomes of possible different treatments.

These nurse - midwives have developed a reputation for offering a high standard of care with excellent outcomes for vaginal breech birth.

In fact, there are a number of birth centers that have substandard outcomes, and fail to meet accreditation standards.

This prevents analysis of homebirth outcomes through the lens of the «gold - standard» random controlled trial (RCT).

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Echoed by AIMS Ireland, chairperson Dr Krysia Lynch said: «Today's outcome marks another important step towards the standard of maternity care that women want and need.

I know it's not the goal, but I think that would be the outcome of implementing these kinds of standards.

Petra Colindres is a Family Dietitian and Lactation Consultant with a passion for infant nutrition and prenatal education, valuing the importance of the first thousand days of an infant's life (from conception to 2 years) to be the standard for future successful health outcomes.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Obstetricians look at the evidence, decide what the best thing to do is on the basis of outcomes, and that becomes the standard of care.

We also calculated outcome rates before reclassification to determine the effect of misclassification in standard vital statistics data, including prior U.S. studies on place of birth.

We therefore performed each simulation 2,000 times, drawing key parameters at random from triangular distributions covering the range of estimates available in the literature associating breastfeeding with maternal health outcomes, centered on the point estimate provided in the literature and a distribution width of four standard errors.

How does midwifery care improve outcomes for communities of color who have a higher risk of mortality under standard medical maternity care?

If you come to the hospital believing that every intervention is going to undermine your labor (false), and that medical professional are not looking out for you and your babies» best interests (also false), you are fairly likely to have a shitty time because the normal, preventative - medicine - based standard of care contradicts the idea that «trusting birth» is enough to produce good outcomes.

All that MW is going to do is open the doors for malpractice suits (since HB is outside the standard of practice, every bad outcome is going to be a lost malpractice suit)

With the goal of improved health outcomes for children through increased emotional engagement of fathers, our research is anticipated to lead to new evidence - based standards for intervention.

Homebirth is just as safe» because homebirth in the UK is nothing like homebirth in the US, and most homebirth midwives in the US are actively fighting against having a system like the UK, because they don't want the medical education, they don't want to follow standards of practice, they don't want to be held responsible for their actions and outcomes.

CWLA's policies and standards are consistent with existing research on outcomes of children raised by gay, lesbian, or bisexual parents.

Ina May's claim reflects both a lack of basic knowledge (why 40 weeks is considered the standard length of pregnancy) and a touching though deadly naivete that insists that changing the definition of a phenomenon will change its outcome.

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.

To correct for limitations, Bauchner et al suggested four standards for breast feeding studies.22 These include avoidance of detection bias, clear definition of the outcome event, clear definition of breast feeding, and adjustment for potential confounding variables.

However, for Ochola 2013, outcome one of Elliott - Rudder 2014, arm two of Yotebieng 2015, adjusting for clustering based on the summary statistic made the standard error larger and the width of the confidence interval increased which resulted in a design of < 1.

Secondary outcomes: Provision of care in line with the standards within the UK guidelines, Women's satisfaction with care.

A comparison of the outcomes of partnership caseload midwifery and standard hospital care in low risk mothers

As noted above, included studies were very varied in setting, population group studied, content, timing and intensity of the intervention, whether it was proactively offered to women or available only if they asked for it, the standard care available, staff training programmes, and the type and timing of the outcomes measured.

Officials that briefed newsmen on the outcome of the meeting include: Mrs. Tokunbo Martins, CBN Director of Banking Supervision; Mrs. Bola Adesola, Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank; Mr. Philip Odozua, retiring Managing Director of UBA; Mr. Emeka Emuwa, Managing Director of Union Bank and Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, Acting Director of Communications of the CBN.

The aim of a progressive political economy ought to be forging a resilient and balanced economy where people and businesses can plan ahead; delivering more egalitarian outcomes that narrow the inequalities of wealth and ownership which characterise modern capitalist economies; and sustaining growth that is necessary both for rising living standards and improvements in public services.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

I fail to see how this can improve schools or improve the outcomes and standards of our children.

Incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo has supported the Common Core standards as a vehicle to improve educational outcomes in New York, but has been sharply critical of the state education department and the Board of Regents for the Common Core's flawed rollout in New York.

He said most of those elections were not only adjudged to meet international standards but had also produced varied outcomes for different political parties at different times.

Most of these elections have not only been adjudged to meet international standards but have also produced varied outcomes for different political parties at different times.

Mr Chaytor has referred himself to the parliamentary standards watchdog and has also been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party pending the outcome of investigations.

Day argued the petitioning was a matter of abiding by all required regulations and that the outcome would be a product of the same regulatory standards.