Sentences with phrase «quality measures»

And really, if you're buying set of quality measuring cups and spoons, you might as well go ahead and just spend that money on a scale instead.

This is meant to complement, but not replace, other school quality measures that include multiple factors, such as student growth rates.

The many successes of self - published authors — including awards based on quality measures — have proven that self - publishing isn't a «lesser» path by any means.

Candidate with extensive problem solving abilities regarding testing procedures and air quality measures seeks to work for an organization where my skills will be recognized for further career growth.

The problem is that teacher quality measured by effectiveness in the classroom is not consistently related to the training and backgrounds of teachers.

Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences and safe delivery of care.

In order to provide teachers feedback on their instructional alignment, we need high quality measures of their instruction throughout the school year.

Return on assets and other earnings quality measures are considered when determining allocations.

Parents have a great amount of power through a statewide program, offering numerous choices, more digital - learning opportunities than most states, and has a considerable record of teacher quality measures.

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

As a result, marital quality measures were assessed from some married respondents and their spouses in both 2006 and 2010, and for others only in 2006, 2008, or 2010.

At the same time, proficiency rates are the only quality measure available for a national sample of schools.

Cost should not be the only driver for how quality measures are selected.

The investigators also observed relationships between other sleep quality measures and poor cognitive performance.

While this approach has clear limitations, evidence suggests that such value - added estimates of charter schools are actually quite similar to the school quality measures obtained via lottery - based experimental studies.

This has helped us always follow rigorous quality measures to provide top - class quality papers to our students all around the world.

We did not include quality measures related to the quality of corporate governance or practitioner - oriented measures of investment quality, e.g., earnings - to - price ratios or low volatility.

Nearly all dividend indices employ quality measures to ensure their objectives are achieved.

All the more, pay attention to balance sheets, revenue recognition policies, and other accounting quality measures.

Video quality measured by % of time at or above SD.

Conducted regular medical records review and audits to assure quality measures were being followed and maintained.

It comprises a set of standards and principles that determine the food quality measures and help to prevent health risks.

Create quality measures that ensure high levels of customer support and satisfaction while managing the Electronic Practice Management Help Desk.

Several programs exist linking incentive payments to reporting of selected quality measures, but reimbursement has yet to be directly linked with outcomes.

He arrived promptly at the scheduled time and introduced himself in a professional manner, giving us his «business card» which was a gift of a nice quality measuring tape.

The level variable is highly correlated with the school quality measure (percent proficient) used in the national analysis, but the correlation between the growth variable and percent proficient is considerably weaker.

-LSB-...] many successes of self - published authors — including awards based on quality measures — have proven that self - publishing isn't a «lesser» path by any means.

The overall plan passes, although some strict air quality measures are set aside.

Stocks with attractive quality ratios receive higher allocations, and return on assets and other earnings quality measures are considered when determining allocations.

The rankings are calculated according to a fixed subset of quality measures, with each measure given a fixed importance weight.

The study also examined variations in quality measure rates by service branch — Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy — and TRICARE region (North, South, West, and Overseas) as well as across service member characteristics.

Automated abstraction from electronic health records (EHRs) has been heralded as a means of reducing costs, but automation currently involves immense fixed costs and nontrivial ongoing costs.5 Even 7 years after passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which mandated automated quality measures as part of the «meaningful use» criteria, such measures are infrequently available and rarely used.

The study recommends that the Department of Defense investigate the reasons for the significant variation in quality measure rates to ensure consistent, high - quality care.

Participation in CMS National Provider Call Mr. Balasa participated in the October 24, 2012, CMS National Provider Call «In - depth Overview of Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs for Eligible Professionals.»

The Lindner Center of HOPE was named as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for 2012 and 2013 by The Joint Commission.

Furthermore, Head Start actually competes well on quality measures with preschools that have reputations for high quality.

Insurers and healthcare plans ranked me as a top physician for meeting quality measures.

Neither of the subscales of relationship quality measured by adolescent report shortly after the child's birth predicted parenting at 6 months.

Due to our sourcing and processing capabilities, including detailed quality measures along the entire supply chain, you can rely on our ability to provide continuous and constant quality with our EXBERRY ® Colouring Foods.

Most CAHMI measures have been endorsed for voluntary use by the National Quality Forum and are included in the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse.

The award signifies that UConn Health has achieved 85 percent or higher composite adherence to all Mission: Lifeline ® STEMI Receiving Center Performance Achievement indicators for consecutive 24 - month intervals, and 75 percent or higher compliance on all Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center quality measures to improve the quality of care for STEMI patients.

«Rather than focusing on readmissions, preventable or otherwise, time may be better spent in developing quality measures of complex disease management across a patient's continuum of care,» they write.

For instance, I spent about 10 years trying to convince 6 out of 8 teaching hospital research groups to consider adopting double data entry or other data quality measures like the 2 other teaching hospitals with zero impact (all in the same city).

Assists team and internal staff with implementation of new quality measures, policies, and procedures

Summary: This article advocates for using Chronic Absenteeism as the additional school quality measure under ESSA.

Health care regulations mentioned include several oversight programs for hospitals such as an audit program that seeks to correct inaccurate Medicare payments, a requirement that hospitals report on 60 different quality measures, which can cost hospitals $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 per year.

We used three measures to capture the pertinent information: return on equity (ROE) to reflect growth and profitability; the debt coverage ratio to represent the likelihood of default; and the accruals - to - average - total - assets measure defined by Sloan (1996) to quantify possible accounting red flags.12 To arrive at company - specific quality measures, we used the simple arithmetic average of each stock's percentile rank for these three variables.