Sentences with phrase «on quality outcomes»

Our reputation is based on the quality outcome of our work and positive feedback from our clients.

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Taking an investment approach and trying to speculate on the ups and downs of prices can lead to undesirable outcomes both financially and in terms of quality of life.

Under his leadership, Humana has created an integrated care delivery model centered on improving health outcomes, driving lower costs, enhancing quality, and providing a simple and personalized member experience.

This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.

The payment is contingent on quality care and outcomes.

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

Four motifs in Rogers» approach to counseling and therapy represent continuing contributions to the psychotherapeutic enterprise — his growth orientation; his emphasis on listening responsively and acceptingly to clients; his awareness that the emotional quality of the therapeutic relationship is the key to whether or not it nurtures growth; and his commitment to subjecting the therapeutic process and outcome to careful research.

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.

CST offers turnkey solutions based on a known raw water quality and guaranteeing water quality outcomes thus giving user engineers significant confidence in the outcomes and limiting their exposure and potential concerns,» says CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mr Michael Bambridge.

3.3 the likelihood and consequence of variance from the expected ecological outcome (including negative impacts on biota and water quality).

The specific focus of the postdoctoral research training program is to educate the next generation of researchers on rehabilitation strategies for children with MS. Fellows who complete the training will be uniquely equipped to conduct rehabilitation - oriented research focusing on improving quality of life and outcomes for children who have MS.

The outcome is less playing time than necessary, which then initiates a perpetual cycle; being of a lower quality than the existing striker results in less minutes on field, which leads to less confidence, resulting in a seemingly even lower quality.

It is also the case that religious couples who experience disharmony — especially where she is religious and he is not — face worse on some outcomes, such as relationship quality.

On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

It is a reliable and practical tool that can be used to rate the quality of research that examines the effects of birth place on health outcomes.

More rigorous longitudinal studies using outcome measures focusing on movement quality are recommended to understand any long - lasting influence on the motor skills in these infants.

Research shows that high - quality early childhood programs can yield a 13 percent annual return on investment through better outcomes in education, health, social behaviors and employment — reducing taxpayer costs down the road.

It summarizes the research on SNAP's role in dietary quality, obesity, and other health outcomes, such as food insecurity.

Heather's work primarily focuses on obesity, dietary quality, and health outcomes among low - income and food - insecure children and families, with emphasis on how the federal nutrition programs improve health, nutrition, and well - being.

Most programs emphasize the importance of a positive visitor — family relationship since programs are voluntary, and visiting depends on the willingness of the family to invest.10 Indeed, evidence suggests that the quality of the relationship is a predictor of program outcomes.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

In the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's «Evidence Report on Breastfeeding in Developed Countries,» 243 multiple outcomes, including SIDS, were examined.

The final stage of developing the ResQu Index was to use it in a systematic review to assess the quality of studies (published between 2000 and 2016) on the maternal and perinatal outcomes of different places of birth, for women with healthy, low - risk pregnancies in high - income countries.

«We are currently working with people from across the field of cancer to develop a new Cancer Reform Strategy, which will set out the plans for cancer services in England over the next five to ten years, building on progress so far by spreading best practice and recommending what more needs to be done to improve clinical outcomes, drive up quality and increase value for money.»

Ensuring access to high quality care for people with diabetes Diabetes UK and the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) believe that all people with diabetes should have equal access to the best possible diabetes care and health outcomes provided on the basis of clinical need..

In addition, following enactment in the final budget of legislation that makes for - profit colleges eligible for the state's Enhanced Tuition Awards and STEM Scholarship programs regardless of their record on student loan debt and employment outcomes, stronger quality controls and student protections are essential.»

A project to protect Californians who live near the Salton Sea from deteriorating air quality could sink or swim based on the outcome of a June ballot measure.

«Our results suggest that, up to the age of 45, there is little effect of male age on treatment outcome, but sperm donors are a selected population based on good sperm quality.

«The outcome of fertility treatments using donor sperm is not dependent on male age, but on the quality of sperm.»

It would become a new National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality funded at $ 272 million from NIH's budget, with an additional $ 107 million from an existing trust fund for patient - centered outcomes research.

• When it comes to defining provider quality, most Americans tend to focus on certain aspects of quality relating to doctor - patient interactions and doctors» personality traits, rather than the effectiveness of the care provided or the patient's own health outcomes.

An investigation into how patient outcomes are assessed in clinical trials has revealed a worrying lack of consistency, raising concerns about funding being wasted on the acquisition of poor quality data.

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.

«Our goal here was to get a picture of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some of the assumptions about the impact of nursing home quality on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«If quality measures focused on age and health status, rather than age alone, we'd have better outcomes,» he adds.

Results of the tool quality grading found that most outcome measures in the 22 trials received only a moderate rating because there was limited information on reliability, validity or sensitivity to treatment for the vast majority of them.

Our work is focused solely on addressing the needs of those facing cancer today, improving their quality of life and health outcomes through free support services, programs, tools, resources and advocacy efforts.

Brent James, vice president for medical research and executive director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare, and known internationally for his innovative work on improving the quality and safety of health care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.»

One of the main outcomes of the project will be to identify high - quality germanium substrates that rival the performance of the well - established silicon - on - insulator wafers.

Data on anesthesia adverse events collected through the Anesthesia Quality Institute's (AQI) National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR) are being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ™ 2014 annual meeting.

Depression, even when undiagnosed, can have many negative effects on cardiovascular patients, including poor healthcare experiences, more use of healthcare resources and higher health costs, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policyQuality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policOutcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policyquality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policoutcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers.

The research, one of a number of studies to explore the connection between heart disease and development of depression by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, will be published on July 28 in the European Heart Journal — Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes.

We observed no statistically significant association between average quality and racial disparity on any of the 4 HEDIS outcome indicators after controlling for age, sex, and year of measurement (Figure 3).

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.

Third, have any specific health plans achieved both high overall quality and low racial disparity on 1 or more HEDIS outcome measures?

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

«It is our hope that emerging technologies and future studies will expand on our work, and ultimately lead to safe, targeted, and cost - effective therapies that markedly improve visual outcomes and quality of life for patients suffering from these debilitating eye diseases.»

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

With ongoing studies in cancer care quality, outcomes prediction, clinical epidemiology, and medical decision making, we have a comprehensive portfolio of practice - and policy - relevant translational population sciences research in urologic cancers, building on the exceptional strengths of UNC Lineberger.

Quiz Ref IDFemale physicians now account for approximately one - third of the US physician workforce17 and comprise half of all US medical school graduates.18 Despite evidence suggesting that female physicians may provide higher - quality care,1 - 4, 7,8,10,12 - 16 some have argued that career interruptions for childrearing, higher rates of part - time employment, and greater tradeoffs between home and work responsibilities19 may compromise the quality of care provided by female physicians and justify higher salaries among male physicians.20 - 22 Therefore, empirical evidence on whether patient outcomes differ between male and female physicians is warranted.