Sentences with phrase «outcome areas assessed»

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Assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

• Use of multiple forms of evidence of student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to students about their performance to improve learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.

A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice, found that, over time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning gains in their classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define measurable outcomes in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.

Partnering with School Districts for Sustainable Success Devoted to system - wide school improvement, the Connecticut Center for School Change assesses Connecticut school districts to identify key areas for improvement and provides strategies for sustainable student outcomes.

Assessing hospital quality If you personally needed a heart valve replacement, for example, you might look for data on outcome for valve replacement surgery at the various hospitals in your area.

In the light of broader human rights principles, the report assesses the outcomes of government policies, including the focus on improvements in targeted areas including health and housing reform.

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

Next, affiliates select at least one additional outcome from the second category which assesses areas such as family health / well - being, child development and / or child heath / well - being.

Adolescents at risk for depression in the Chicago and Boston areas were assigned randomly to the CATCH - IT intervention or to a health education control and were assessed over time for depressive symptoms, depressive episodes, and other functional outcomes.

CDF uses the latest data compiled by the federal government to track national and state level data on child maltreatment, foster care, and other relevant child welfare activities to assess trends and identify areas for improving the outcomes of children involved in the child welfare system.