Sentences with phrase «outcome studies across»

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Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of birth across all settings is more important than ever given disparities in women's access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to other industrialized countries.

Because donor milk use in NICU's across the country is expanding rapidly, this study highlights the increasing importance of monitoring its infrastructure and reporting outcomes.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

For dichotomous outcomes, we planned to pool events between groups across studies using risk ratios (RRs) and 95 % CIs.

Of 170 child behaviour outcomes measured across 36 studies, 59 % were statistically significant and favoured parenting programme over control, with the remaining outcomes showing no statistically significant difference (a neutral outcome).

Standardised mean differences were derived to take account of the variety of behavioural outcome measures included and random effect models adopted in view of variability of the intervention and target populations across studies.

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

Twelve of the included studies were judged at low risk of bias for incomplete outcome data on the basis that attrition rate was less than 20 % for all outcomes (other than satisfaction), or missing outcome data were balanced across groups (Begley 2011; Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Homer 2001; Kenny 1994; McLachlan 2012; North Stafford 2000; Tracy 2013; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

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.

A reform group studied votes taken by local governments across the state on whether to allow hydrofracking, and found numerous potential conflicts of interest that they say could have tainted the outcome of the votes.

This study investigated whether children whose mothers had an alcohol - related disorder would be at risk of early - life contact with the justice system, which can lead to many negative outcomes across an individual's life span.

«ImPACT found the largest effects for individuals who had been concussed, across all outcomes,» said Dr. Braithwaite, who initiated the idea for this study.

In addition to postoperative A-fib, researchers are studying, for example, what factors can improve outcomes of surgeries performed on weekends; how many rectal cancer operations a hospital needs to perform for the best results; and whether having a trauma department confers a beneficial «halo effect» on patient outcomes across the board.

«To study the properties of the games themselves and how they relate to problem gambling, we have focussed on two psychological distortions that occur across many forms of gambling: «near - miss» outcomes (where a loss looks similar or «close» to a jackpot win) and the «gambler's fallacy» (for example, believing that a run of heads means that a tail is «due», in a game of chance).

Calibration is the agreement between the predicted risk and actual outcomes on average, and across the spectrum of predicted risk — from low to high, said Mark E. Cohen, PhD, one of the study's authors and a statistical manager in the ACS Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care.

The authors caution that the results represent averages across general practice populations; this study did not evaluate the outcome of prescribing decisions for individual patients.

The study found that states with the highest income inequalities had higher disparities in birth outcomes across the UV spectrum.

«We found a consistent pattern of success across a number of different outcome measures,» says the study's principal investigator John Walkup, MD, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member within the Center for American Indian Health.

While the Affordable Care Act requires hospices to report quality measures across a range of processes and practices, this is the first study to examine the link between hospice preferred practices and outcomes for patients receiving hospice care.

«We studied the outcomes of the ACT model across the entire hospital except the ICUs,» said study co-author Siu Hui, Ph.D., a Regenstrief Institute biostatistician and professor emeritus of biostatistics at the IU School of Medicine.

Numerous studies have documented poorer health care and outcomes for black patients in the U.S., but few have asked why or compared racial bias across nations.

In a new study in JAMA Neurology, a team led by Dr. Shadi Yaghi, assistant professor of neurology, analyzed data from 10 stroke centers across the country between 2009 and 2014 to investigate the treatment and outcome of sICH.

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.

The ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Group contains an Imaging Core Laboratory to support a wide range of clinical trials associated with imaging that are developed across the Group's three scientific programs: Cancer Control and Outcomes, Therapeutic Studies, and Biomarker Sciences.

National estimates of death following general surgery have been too optimistic, according to the first large - scale study to explore surgical outcomes across Europe, led by Queen Mary, University of London.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

This study suggests that creating classes with lower levels of dispersion of score or ability level may improve the achievement outcomes for students across the score distribution (Collins and Gan, 2013, page 20).

A 2014 study by Veenman and colleagues suggests that metacognition, or «cognition about cognition,» may account for some 40 percent of the variation in learning achievement across a range of outcomes.

Try to think of an education policy that 1) has been shown, in dozens of studies across multiple decades, to positively affect student outcomes; 2) has the overwhelming support of parents and voters; 3) reinforces many other policies and facilitates quality research; and 4) has been used widely at the district, state, and national levels for decades or more.

The Sutton Trust report, «Background to Success», investigates patterns of academic attainment of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).

The study will fill in many of those gaps, helping policymakers understand the characteristics of early care in formal and informal settings, the links to children's outcomes over time, and effective practices to improve quality and access across the spectrum.

The research on principal preparation, the result of a two - year study with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), highlights the link between principal preparation programs and student outcomes in five large districts across the United States.

Moreover, across these fourteen studies, various outcomes of the teacher leader practice of providing demonstration lessons or modeling were examined:

The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.

Noting the lack of rigorous analysis of the role principals play in determining student outcomes, the study's authors measure how average gains in achievement, adjusted for individual student and school characteristics, differ across principals - both in different schools and in the same school at different points in time.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

An evaluation by the Institute for Fiscal Studies carried out across 14 schools on 2,379 pupils, found «no evidence that pupils» GCSE outcomes improved» in participating schools compared to a control group of schools.

Carol Campbell, the principal researcher for the study, added, «While Canada is internationally recognized as valuing education and committing to both excellence and equity, there is a gap in shared knowledge about the professional learning practices that contribute to improved educational outcomes within and across Canada and in the unique and diverse contexts of each province and territory.»

● Oversee the implementation of the educational vision across all campuses, and ensure schools are producing amazing outcomes for students ● Ensure all schools meet their academic and cultural goals ● Build a strong, collaborative team of principals ● Ensure schools are operationally strong, aesthetically beautiful and clean, within budget, and well - organized ● Oversee performance management systems and the hiring process across the schools ● Manage the college teams in supporting students as they prepare for college ● Provide individual development and management to school principals through one - on - one meetings, coaching, modeling, planning, and feedback ● Lead regular professional learning for school leaders (topics such as instructional leadership, personnel management, school operations, data analysis, school culture, and family investment) ● Study and analyze data on an ongoing basis ● Work with school principals to develop and implement action plans based on academic results

They will implement a continuous improvement process tailored to the needs of each of the schools, use data from the Montana longitudinal secondary data system to depict historical trends in literacy outcomes across the state and by subgroups, and include a comparison study of schools participating in the Montana Striving Readers Program (but not the partnership) to understand the literacy challenges and monitor the impact of the solutions.

In addition to student achievement outcomes the study revealed differential patterns in favor of Science IDEAS of the evolution of teacher judgments of student reading proficiency across grades 3 - 7.

The most widespread study of charter schools across the US, which employs statistical techniques to conduct such comparisons is from the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO).

The vast majority of independent studies show school choice improves academic outcomes across the board.

This 18 - month, mixed - methods, exploratory study, conducted in partnership with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, will have three phases: 1) Qualitative inquiry across K - 8 schools in Philadelphia; 2) Latent class analysis to identify «profiles» of school disciplinary approaches, coupled with event history analysis to examine student outcomes in context; 3) Case studies to examine contextual themes in depth.

We make use of a new data source — matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida — to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations.

Downer acknowledged this doesn't appear to be a strong pattern, clarifying, «The study results are definitely not saying that the match is consistently important across all kids and all outcomes; the story is much more nuanced.»

Third, in one of the best and most well - respected studies we have on this to date, Papay (2010)[in his Different tests, different answers: The stability of teacher value - added estimates across outcome measures study] found that value - added estimates WIDELY range across different standardized tests given to the same students at the same time.

This study analyzed the predictive relationship between reading fluency and school outcomes across school levels (primary, secondary, and high school), after controlling on the effect of reading