Sentences with phrase «quality outcome systems»

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She oversees several NIMH funded clinical trials targeting the motivational system to enhance the drive to improve one's quality of life and health outcomes.

«Obamacare» introduced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) which (for once) monitored outcomes 6.

Since then, research, professional guidelines, state — wide health care directives, hospital systems, health care quality improvement initiatives, and federal and state - level maternity care legislation have identified many aspects of the MFCI and the Ten Steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative as key factors to improving maternal - infant health outcomes.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

«With all the fervor around the potential for big data, it's critical to keep in mind the substantial differences across databases in content, coding systems and practices, duration of available medical history and follow - up time, quality of outcome information, and clinical practice patterns.»

The study found no association between hospital - based participation in the NSQIP and improvements in postoperative outcomes over time, suggesting that a surgical outcomes reporting system does not provide a clear mechanism for quality improvement.

Systems that capture, analyze, and report surgical outcomes are an increasingly important part of the quality improvement movement in health care in the United States.

Within the U.S., the most widely used surgical outcomes reporting system is the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), which is coordinated through the American College of Surgeons.

Patients with CSA are good candidates for the remede ® system which can improve their sleepiness, quality of life and potentially their clinical outcomes.»

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.

Through a medical audit and outcome monitoring, the system provides important mechanisms for peer review and quality assurance data to improve the quality of patient care.

NIMH encourages services research, including research to develop interventions to improve the quality and outcomes of care; organization and system - level interventions to enhance service delivery; and strategies for widespread dissemination and implementation for evidence - based treatments into routine care settings.

The study was funded in part by the Patient - Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; the Integrated Cancer Information and Surveillance System; UNC Lineberger; and the University Cancer Research Fund.

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.

Patients who have solid tumors and blood cancers may be able to significantly improve their treatment experience, outcome and quality of life, by maximizing the performance of their immune system in addition to receiving standard treatments.

The Clinical Research Forum believes that continued success for our nation's translational research enterprise will require the development of an integrated system with the capacity to efficiently translate a burgeoning pipeline of basic research into high quality clinical care and improved health outcomes.

Expanding and improving the existing ECE system will produce higher - quality outcomes than a monopolistic approach to pre-K education.

We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.

Richard Cairns, the headmaster of private Brighton College, said: «ISI inspection is more focused on outcomes relative to the quality of pupils you're getting, but under Ofsted there is a lot of box - ticking, everyone is nervous of a system that is overly bureaucratic.

However, the real challenge is producing a consistent level of quality educational experiences and outcomes across a system, at scale.

«Most education systems are not producing the level of quality in terms of learning outcomes that is desired,» she said.

For this younger age group, we are now closer than we have ever been to an education system where your family background or where you live does not necessarily determine the quality of teaching you receive or the outcomes you achieve.»

The nation's primary K — 12 education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires states to provide richer information on outcomes for all students, produce high - quality public reports, and rethink their accountability systems to provide transparency and value to the public.

For aspirants, a state evaluation system can provide concrete information about program features and outcomes (e.g., candidate learning and career outcomes)-- including side - by - side, apples - to - apples comparisons — thus helping them choose high - quality programs.

Making reading practice a system - wide objective may be one of the most important things we can do for our students» long - term outcomes, especially when we combine it with high - quality instruction and effective reading curricula.

Education system leaders, such as Education Secretary Arne Duncan in the United States and Michael Gove in the United Kingdom, have suggested that recruiting academically smarter people to teach in schools would enhance the quality of teaching and improve academic outcomes in schools.

The SCPCSD Core Performance System (CPS), which the SPF is a part of, outlines the district's various accountability processes and focuses oversight on outcomes to support high - quality charter schools.

The city could have made a strong statement about the value of high - quality educators, but instead chose to keep in place a «step and lane» system that awards salary increases for years spent on the job and graduate degrees earned, even though research clearly shows that degrees have no impact on outcomes for children.

Among other areas, the review panels considers candidates» «classroom expertise, curricula quality, innovative course development, and student learning outcomes,» according to UT System.

The implication here is that when you emphasize a numeric outcome, like graduation rates, and then provide incentives to raise those numbers, you're bound to produce more efforts to game the system and actually lower the quality of education.

For instance, in the late 1990s, all 184 schools in Milwaukee private, public, and charter schools focused on improving quality of instruction and student outcomes across the system.

Sharpening the Focus: Helping Fine - Tune Policies and Practices to Promote Effective Teaching and Learning in the Early Years explores what supports and systems are needed to drive teaching quality that will result in improved outcomes for children and the «powerful and few» core policies are needed to improve teaching quality and result in significant outcomes for children.

Without high - quality inputs and processes, any positive short - and long - term outcomes will happen sporadically and in spite of the accountability system — not because of it.

Use the SCALE / LDC Curriculum Alignment Rubric (CAR) to create a shared system of quality indicators that help teachers, schools, and systems align curriculum, instruction, and assessment, as well as ensure that every task put in front of students is standards - driven, engaging, and leads to improved outcomes.

For example, states may define a high - quality data system as one that tracks K - 12, postsecondary, and workforce outcomes for all students.

At present, there are no standardized measures for assessing pre - kindergarten / early elementary classrooms» contributions to child outcome that could be appropriately used in a system of accountability or professional development focused on classroom quality.

The Ounce is publishing some innovative ideas about how we can bridge the early education and K — 12 systems, improving the quality and outcomes of both.

One component is an ESSA - required system that leads to actions to improve school quality, and the other component is a system that helps states understand what led to those outcomes.

GPE is monitoring the partnership's progress via 4 indicators in its results framework that measure the improvement of learning outcomes, the quality of learning assessment systems, and the availability and distribution of trained teachers.

The focus of the leading indicator system is on quality implementation that has potential to lead to positive youth outcomes, rather than just focusing on assessing the achievement of youth outcomes after the program year is completed.

In «Quality and Equity in American Education: Systemic Problems, Systemic Solutions,» the authors write that continuous improvement is focused on system outcomes for a defined population of beneficiaries and the processes that lead to those results.

Develop and apply quality - monitoring systems with the appropriate language, protocols, standards, and measures (of processes, student outcomes, and implementation outcomes).

Second, states and districts also should provide an effective instructional infrastructure, including clear curriculum guidance, high - quality curriculum - aligned assessments, a data system to track implementation progress and measure student outcomes, and access to interim student data via user - friendly data tools.

Yglesias» position on how fix that is to increase the total number of high quality schools so that getting slots in them is less competitive for interested students and parents, in particular so that low income parents can get high quality outcomes through the public school system.

This webinar will explore a comprehensive system for improvement that allows teachers, administrators, and districts to actively and reflectively respond to student outcomes in order to provide quality teaching and learning for all.

IDRA's Quality Schools Action Framework ™, developed by IDRA President Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, is a guide for bringing about positive outcomes in school systems (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010).

By emphasizing the importance of college, creating a school system that revolves around it, KIPP discourages families for whom college is not the sole outcome of a quality education from sending their children to KIPP schools.

However, if thresholds for the more qualitative goals (that is, life satisfaction, healthy life expectancy, secondary education, democratic quality, social support and equality) are to be universally met then provisioning systems — which mediate the relationship between resource use and social outcomes — must become two to six times more efficient.

Law firms are also adapting to the emerging imperative of process improvement, finding ways to introduce efficiency and enhance the quality of outcomes through better procedures and workflow systems.

Management experience: if you've organized monitoring or assessment systems or provided standardized health quality data for insurance assessments, you'll need to summarize your specific role with concrete examples of how you delivered them and the outcomes you achieved.