Sentences with phrase «quality of outcomes among»

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While patient safety, clinical informatics, data analytics, and improving quality outcomes remain top of mind among hospital - based healthcare IT leaders, cybersecurity and data privacy and security issues have risen nearly to the top of the list of concerns of those leaders.

A University of Rochester - led study, published in the August issue of Health Affairs, shows complication rates can vary as much as five-fold among hospitals, prompting researchers to call for the development of a national quality reporting system to improve maternal outcomes for more than 4 million women who give birth each year.

His most recently awarded grants are from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, where he is Co-PI of the program project grant, «Eliminating Racial Disparities in Health,» and from the Centers for Disease Control where he is PI of a constituent case - case project comparing prostate cancer outcomes among African Americans and Caucasians.

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.

[xv] So improving the quality of curriculum materials is a very low - cost way to improve outcomes, even if it is the least supported among the options presented by Education Next.

Work Based Learning in Linked Learning: Definitions, Outcomes, and Quality Criteria (PDF, 450 KB) This document strives to: 1) Clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning the definition of high - quality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and efOutcomes, and Quality Criteria (PDF, 450 KB) This document strives to: 1) Clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning the definition of high - quality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effQuality Criteria (PDF, 450 KB) This document strives to: 1) Clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning the definition of high - quality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effquality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and efoutcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effective.

The Commission of Higher Education is working to: 1) improve the quality of teacher preparation and performance; 2) open the level of dialogue among superintendents and principals and higher education teacher preparation programs; 3) expand communication among vertical teams in P - 16 to support students entering post-secondary education; and 4) review and measure learning outcomes at all levels, including higher education and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondary options.

The primary purposes of this document are to; (a) Provide clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning concerning the definition of high - quality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and (b) increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistance providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning can be more coherent, coordinated, and effective.

Research shows that career pathways can improve teacher evaluation procedures and improve student achievement.13 For example, research from the Emerging Leaders Program — a job - embedded teacher leadership development program — shows that with high - quality training, teacher leaders can quickly improve achievement among students in high - need school districts in places such as New York City, the District of Columbia, and Shelby County, Tennessee.14 Likewise, student achievement growth in schools implementing Teach Plus» T3 Initiative — a teacher - designed turnaround model that trains and supports teacher leaders to improve school outcomes and transform schools — is consistently more than double that of area district and charter schools.15

Among several findings, the study shows that the quality of principals» actions is more relevant to outcomes than the amount of time devoted to the actions.

Web Marketing and Analytics Consulting — Selected Duties and Responsibilities Lead through example with consistent work ethic, attitude, and professionalism, while developing marketing strategies through strategic target audience assessment and analysis Collaborate in all phases of strategic project planning and automation with senior - level management, including dashboard development, tracking code implementation, campaign execution, and report scheduling Provide guidance and leadership with respect to marketing campaign strategy development, benchmarking, implementation, post-execution analysis, and process optimization Measure the success of website and online marketing initiatives using data and related key metrics and evaluating the digital marketing maturity level, ensuring highest competitive abilities versus industry competitors Validate all data capturing processes and report populations with respective web analytics tools, ensuring the quality and integrity of all data within system as well as all generated reports Utilize experience in BFS, consumer goods, high - tech products / services, media, and digital marketing tools, along with related talent among team with focused collaboration and the promotion of a performance - based environment leveraging individual talents for group benefit Perform A / B and multivariate testing as well as behavior and outcome metrics analyses, reporting results in a clear, accurate, and meaningful manner to clients and management Address key client queries and resolve them in an expedited manner, promoting sustained revenue growth through client retention and relationship development Meet and exceed all marketing targets while tracking progress versus established internal and external industry benchmarks, focusing on both revenue generation as well as cost control Maintain a strong working knowledge of the product and respective marketplace, including pricing and regulatory trends, client requirements, competitor strategies, and product growth Act as a liaison between clients, vendors, sales and support staff, and executive management to facilitate information flow and drive operational efficiency

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.28 — 33 Small - scale reviews of school - based programs run by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been conducted in Kenya, but there has not been a review of the government's sexuality education program in schools.34, 35

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.10, 24 — 27 This report provides a detailed snapshot of how the policies related to sexuality education in Ghana are translated into practice and what students, teachers and heads of schools think about them.

Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.

Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both genetic and environmental factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental factors in promoting resiliency, even in the presence of a genotype expected to predispose to psychiatric disorder.

Controlling for endogenous covariates (including school quality) thus has the net result of denying the possibility that there are multiple pathways by which the neighborhood may influence developmental outcomes among children (22).

The positive linkages between child care quality and a variety of positive outcomes are among the most pervasive findings in developmental science.

The quality of the relationships between and among consultants and consultees (staff, family, children, etc.) and the readiness of families, staff, and programs for consultation (openness to gaining new skills and knowledge, opportunities for collaboration, etc.) are strongly associated with positive outcomes of consultation.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The current study examined the impact of Children and Residential Experiences (CARE) on the interactional quality among staff and youth in therapeutic residential care.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of The Parent Project, among parents of at - risk youth in the areas of general child management, family involvement, negative parent — child affective quality, substance use rules communication, and parental self - efficacy (PSE) in the ability to affect adolescent substance use.

These benefits, which accrue to both individuals and the public at large, are mostly due to improved long - term outcomes among children who participate in high - quality early learning programs: they are more likely to be high school graduates, attend postsecondary education, and own assets (such as a home)-- and they are less likely to be caught up in the cycle of mass incarceration.

Collaborative care is an empirically supported method of extending the reach, quality, and outcomes of care for common mental disorders in medical settings.6, 7 Randomized trials of collaborative care have demonstrated improved outcomes among patients with depression and anxiety,7 - 9 depression - related suicidal ideation, 10 depression and chronic health conditions (eg, diabetes, asthma), 11 and chronic pain.12, 13 For PTSD, however, we are aware of only 3 published randomized trials, 1 demonstrating improvements in PTSD14 and 2 that do not15, 16 — hence the need for additional study of collaborative care for PTSD.

Given the critical importance of treatment adherence to the long - term survival of individuals with CF, and given the characteristic decrease in treatment adherence observed across the adolescent period (Quittner et al., 2000; Ricker et al., 1998), the current findings offer promising avenues for future research on both the benefits and risks of peer relationships for youth with CF. Furthermore, health - related quality of life increasingly has been recognized as a critical element of patient and family - reported outcomes among youth with chronic illness (Quittner et al., 2008), and the current findings continue to build on this growing body of literature for youth with CF.

This finding is particularly important because reducing negative marital quality may be associated with other positive health outcomes, such as improved health behaviors, especially among older adults who are more distressed by the negative aspects of their relationships (Liu & Waite, 2014).

If adherence and quality of life are viewed as indices of children's psychological adjustment to their medical conditions, the results of the study revealed that more paternal involvement in disease management was associated with better outcomes among adolescents in particular.