Sentences with phrase «of quality improvement efforts»

Because consultation is fundamentally rooted in the quality of consultant - staff relationships, and designed to build teacher capacity for working with mental health and social - emotional concerns, collecting data from staff as part of quality improvement efforts is extremely important.

This OPRE Research brief describes four types of Quality Improvement efforts.

Not exact matches

The concept of «continuous improvement» arose in such efforts to raise quality.

The authors discuss other studies that have shown the success of financial incentives in engaging physicians and residents in quality improvement efforts, particularly when the incentives are combined with an educational component.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement eQuality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement equality improvement efforts.

Identification of these reasons could help direct future surgical quality improvement efforts and policy decisions designed to reduce surgical readmission rates, according to background information in the article.

Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

Dr. Klein and other members of Vancouver General's multidisciplinary cardiac surgery quality improvement team led the SSI reduction effort after finding that their average cardiac NSQIP SSI rate was 7 percent, about twice that of other comparable hospitals that participate in ACS NSQIP.

The greatest improvements occurred among the most medically complex quarter of patients, those with multiple illnesses who are the focus of ACO efforts to improve quality and lower costs.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

As patient - safety and quality improvement efforts continue to gain momentum throughout health care, the need for accurate sources of information is crucial, yet the question remains: Is one resource better than another?

At a cost of less than $ 500 per patient each year, this modest quality improvement effort is projected to reduce the incidence of major complications, such as end - stage renal disease, which can cost $ 44,000 per patient each year.

Hospitals that maintain adequate nurse staffing in this environment are likely those that have «visionary leadership,» and are investing in both nursing and quality improvement efforts, rather than coping with a lack of staff by forcing nurses to work mandatory overtime shifts, Stone says.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

Despite years of effort by governments, there has been little or no improvement in the quality of education provided in government schools.

Although quality improvements in existing programs and system - building efforts to coordinate services and enhance access are clearly important, they are unlikely to be enough to produce breakthrough impacts for children who face the cumulative burdens of low family income, limited parent education, and social exclusion.

The new standards, published in the June 7 Federal Register, are part of an ongoing effort to revamp the office of educational research and improvement, the department's major research arm, and to improve the quality of the research that it finances.

Hill's primary work focuses on developing new measures of mathematics teaching quality, and using these measures to inform current policies and instructional improvement efforts.

Join Laura Bornfreund, the deputy director of the Early Education Initiative for the New America Foundation, and Debi Mathias, the director of the QRIS National Learning Network, as they discuss current early - childhood policy, efforts underway to bolster preschool quality, and suggestions for improvements at the local, state, and federal levels.

Ultimately, the outcome of this convening includes actionable policy guidance for Hampden County, Massachusetts, and the nation — guidance to inform improvements to the quality of early learning environments as well as to inform expansion efforts.

Moreover, such an unrealistic timeline would essentially hamper states» efforts to fully vet the quality and effectiveness of the indicators and improvement strategies and undertake extensive stakeholder engagement, a key component of the new law.

Indeed, improving the quality of teachers has been a core strategy for school improvement in the New York City (NYC) reform effort.

The state of Texas has been making a concerted effort to raise the quality of its public charter schools through sound policy reform, effective implementation, and resources to help practitioners zero in on improvement.

And, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the rest.

There are a number of ways for an effort to be innovative, including the way it is developed and delivered, new product features, and improvements to accessibility or quality of the product.

Our session, titled «Cultivating Literacy Achievement Through Quality Teacher Preparation,» touched on current program - improvement efforts, revision of the ILA standards for program recognition, variations in licensure requirements across the country, and policy - related challenges.

A Curriculum Council is an effective means of providing leadership, coordination, and quality control of curriculum and instructional improvement efforts.

Putting educator quality at the center of national school improvement efforts remains as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when a national commission described recruiting, preparing, and supporting teachers as the single most important in - school resource for providing all students with an equitable and excellent education.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizEfforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizefforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

And, most important, mortality and infection rates in hospitals have decreased substantially due to continuous quality improvement efforts based on evidence of effective practice.

The ratings, compiled by U.S. News and World Report and the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a pro-accountability advocacy group, are part of an effort to spur improvements in teacher qQuality (NCTQ), a pro-accountability advocacy group, are part of an effort to spur improvements in teacher qualityquality.

UCEA has opened an opportunity for submissions of 5 - minute videos that explore broadly the landscape of quality leadership preparation, including our research and engaged scholarship, our preparation program designs and improvement efforts, our policy work, and the practice of educational leaders.

While we support the effort to increase options for Detroit kids and parents, we hope the legislature considers a record of school quality and improvement as a prerequisite for new schools.»

In crafting these policies, California can build on the expertise and examples of its counties, many of which have local quality improvement initiatives, including efforts to strengthen their ECE workforces.

Here we draw upon this literature to illustrate findings on the district role in reform in three areas: the challenges confronting district efforts to implement system - wide improvements in student learning; district strategies for improving student learning; and evidence of impact on the nature and quality of teaching and learning.

«Kia's world - class lineup continues to earn quality, reliability and safety awards at an increasing rate and these IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus ratings for Soul and Sportage reflect Kia's continuous improvement and effort to improve all aspects of safety,» said Orth Hedrick, vice president, product planning, KMA.

Our analysis of 700,000 hip and 150,000 elbow records in the publically available OFA database demonstrate clearly that efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of hip dysplasia, and its secondary osteoarthritis in the USA based on radiographic evaluation (phenotype), have met with meager improvement in genetic quality as measured by estimated hip score breeding values since 1970 (Hou et al., 2014).

According to Michael Bryant, Co-Founder and CEO of nSource, «With a focus on driving more profits to the bottom line and the need to streamline efforts to focus on delivering the highest levels of service to clients, law firms have historically studied their back / middle office operations for one of two reasons: 1) As part of a broad - based cost savings / optimization effort or 2) Attorney - driven demand for service improvement due to dissatisfaction with quality, availability of services.

As part of our ongoing effort to provide drivers with low - cost, high quality traffic safety programs, we offer a wide variety of driver improvement courses for several U.S. states.

«We can effectively track the sources generating the largest volume and highest quality of candidates for improvements in our recruitment campaign efforts.

Direct all efforts in the execution of quality assurance for 300 + employee facility with a focus on continuous improvement.

Identified and managed continuous improvement projects and consolidation efforts spanning multiple facilities, regions, or countries with the objective of achieving quality, reliability and cost improvements

Areas of Expertise Project Management - Contract Negotiations - Financial Management - Budgeting - Customer Service Process Improvement - Client Relations - Quality Control / Total Quality Management - Team Leadership Training & Development - Operations Management - Cost Controls - Construction Management Select Career Highlights * Planned and coordinated remodeling efforts for McDonald's, installing McCafe units at nearly...

Processes for ensuring consistent data quality and addressing identified issues are offered as part of a broader Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) quality and addressing identified issues are offered as part of a broader Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Quality Improvement (CQI) effort.

Utilize the principles of Continuous Quality Improvement to strengthen and sustain recruitment and retention efforts

Comprised of nine domains, the National School Improvement Tool (NSIT) assists schools to review and reflect on their efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

As educators, you spend lots of time, thought and effort in developing your service's Quality Improvement Plan and preparing for NQF assessment and ratings.

Florida MIECHV is committed to the principles of continuous quality improvement (CQI) and supports efforts at both the state and community - level to improve the effectiveness of the support and services provided to families with young children.

Looking to existing continuous quality improvement efforts in your community to see how they developed their system, its relevance to what you want to accomplish, what has changed because of their continuous quality improvement program, and what steps they took to put the system in place to see how it is working today.

Furthermore, you may want to draw on examples of successful continuous quality improvement programs in your community where data is used to improve performance in order to build support for your emerging effort.