Sentences with phrase «term outcome analyses»

Not exact matches

In the cost - effectiveness analysis (GiveWell estimate of Living Goods cost effectiveness (November 2014)-RRB-, in all Sheets except for «U5MR (Jake's assumptions),» we use 5q0, or the probability of a child dying before his or her 5th birthday expressed in deaths per 1,000 live births assuming constant mortality rates throughout childhood, instead of the under - 5 mortality rate (under 5 deaths per person per year), because the original report on the RCT we received from Living Goods reported outcomes in terms of 5q0.

A review by Goldman (2005) of five studies using multivariate analyses which isolate the independent impact of fathers» involvement in children's learning on educational outcomes, clearly shows that fathers» involvement (both in terms of level and frequency) in their children's schools is a key factor that correlates with better educational outcomes for children.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Despite emerging evidence of a decline in sperm quality with increasing age, an analysis of every first fertility treatment cycle performed in the UK using sperm donation shows that outcome in terms of live birth is not affected by the age of the sperm donor.

The study, conducted at 19 German tertiary care centers (2006 - 2012), included 1,176 individuals for analysis of long - term functional outcome, 853 for analysis of hematoma enlargement, and 719 for analysis of OAC resumption.

On the other hand patients with DRB1 * 04:01 have a better clinical outcome in the short - and long - term suggesting that human leukocyte antigen (HLA) analysis and screening for SLA / LP antibodies should be integrated in the clinical routine for AIH diagnosis.

The long - term analysis of this study followed all participants from the original 5 - month study1 who were still alive and without liver transplant for an additional 6 months, assessing both cognitive and clinical outcomes.

«Intuitively, many had thought that men with «poor» nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long - term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis,» said corresponding author Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, of the Division of Preventive Medicine and the Division of Aging at BWH.

The work that garnered the honor, «An analysis of the risk and benefit of neoadjuvant chemotherapy among patients undergoing surgery for non-small cell lung cancer,» examined data from more than 134,000 patients in the National Cancer Database to assess the impact of neoadjuvant therapy on perioperative outcomes, as well as long - term survival.

When the researchers in the new study left out of the analyses those participants who changed their diets somewhere along the line — say, on a doctor's orders after a stroke — they found that «the association became stronger between the MIND diet and [favorable] outcomes» in terms of AD, Morris said.

Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

David Simms of The National Foundation for Educational Research analyses how a clear vision of long term outcomes can shape their future

One analysis by Eric Eide and Nick Ronan uses an instrumental variable approach to estimate the effect of participating in high school sports on long - term outcomes, like educational attainment and earnings.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

After running a variety of analyses, Hitt, McShane, and Wolf concluded that «A school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

The study provides important insights into the feasibility of the programme in terms of: its potential effects on outcomes; an estimate of these potential effect sizes (providing valuable information on sample sizes for future study); the impacts on different groups (particularly with regard to free school meal eligibility); and key facilitators and barriers to implementation (from the process evaluation and the exploratory analysis of dosage).

Using a recent analysis of Minneapolis Public Schools Marguerite discussed how districts could start to view schools in terms of costs and outcomes...

BERC's mission is to conduct and disseminate long - and short - term strategic data analysis and research that informs decisions about policy and practice to improve the educational and life outcomes of children in Baltimore.

Growth in social and emotional skills is linked to improved academic achievement and positive impacts on long - term outcomes such as educational attainment, employment, substance abuse and criminal activity, according to a 2015 analysis by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Educational Learning.

Empirical analyses might someday help us determine how skills relate to long - term outcomes, but they can not tell us what those outcomes should be.

Using a recent analysis of Minneapolis Public Schools Marguerite discussed how districts could start to view schools in terms of costs and outcomes and using this lens to support the push for autonomy and accountability.

Now, clouds do not make heat exchange imponderable, especially in long term trends of climate analysis, the averages due to what we already know about dynamic equilibrium outcomes and what we observe in the feedbacks going back even greater then 30 years.

The incapacity to rationally contemplate adverse long - term outcomes is characteristic of denialist cognition, in individuals, in corporations, in cultures, in ideologies... and in economic analysis too, eh?

It may be better to provide a wide range of values from the beginning, or, in the majority of cases, none at all — the outcome of a case depends on a number of factors ranging from the client's long - term prognosis, pre-morbid history, expert analysis, and unpredictable juries.

The outcome of the analyses often decided whether the contractual indemnity and insurance terms were enforceable under the general maritime law or void under anti-indemnity statutes.

An analysis of a number of native title agreements in terms of the issues they address and the factors which affected the conduct and outcomes of negotiations;

Prior studies showing that negative affect predicted treatment outcome defined the construct in terms of both BDI and Rosenberg Self - Esteem Scale scores derived from cluster analyses.22, 23 In the current study, the pattern of BDI and EDE score interactions was similar to that of self - esteem and global EDE; the BDI and self - esteem measure were highly correlated (r = 0.73).

In all analyses, we fitted multilevel models with a random effects term for course and for outcomes corresponding to individual child data and a random effects term for family.

We were able to perform meta - analysis for one long - term outcome: child behaviour measured by the SDQ.

In broad terms: step one involves an introduction of the intervention to all selected communities; step two evaluates the variability in implementation integrity across groups; step three attempts to teach low implementation integrity communities the techniques that made high integrity communities successful; step four evaluates the effects of step three and identifies communities where implementation integrity remains low; step five proposes alternate approaches for these communities; and step six evaluates outcomes, using dose - response analyses, where «dose» is based on implementation integrity.

Interestingly, their analysis suggested that these aspects of personality and history do have some power to predict the outcome of your long - term relationships no matter who your partner is.

The study had a long - term follow - up (6.5 years after random assignment), and low attrition of the communities in the sample: Outcome data for the analyses described above were obtained from 86 % of the PROSPER communities and 86 % of the control communities.

First, the effect sizes are smaller both in absolute terms and in comparison to effect sizes reported elsewhere — for example, in the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence reported effects of 1.7 for waiting list versus trauma focused psychological therapies and 1.18 for other active interventions for PTSD.1 Second, there are problems with the small number of trials in key areas (for example, TAU / WL n = 5), with the combining of different outcomes from the same study in the meta - analysis and the failure to consider clinical as opposed to statistical significance.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

Similarly, our recent analysis of the short - and long - term effects of North Carolina's ABC / CARE programs show lasting boosts in both IQ and socio - emotional skills that result in greater educational achievement, higher adult wages, and significantly better health outcomes that reduce health care costs.

Long - Term Outcomes of Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder and Conduct Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta - Analysis.

Mesh terms: Adolescent Behavior Therapy Family Therapy Female Humans Male Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) Parent - Child Relations Parents Professional - Patient Relations Psychotherapeutic Processes Psychotherapy, Brief Regression Analysis Substance - Related Disorders Treatment Outcome

However, analysis has also indicated that the experience of living in a lone parent family in early childhood (under the age of 5), compared with later childhood, is especially linked with long - term negative outcomes including psychological distress and economic inactivity (Ermisch et al., 2004).

An analysis released today by the White House Council of Economic Advisers describes the economic returns to investments in early childhood education, including increased parental earnings and employment in the short - term, reduced need for remedial education and later public school expenditures, as well as long - term outcomes such as increased educational attainment, increased earnings, improved health, and decreased involvement with the criminal justice system.

In fact, a recent meta - analysis of five decades of research showed that spanking a child results in short - term negative outcomes like aggression and defiance and long - term outcomes like substance abuse.

Several reports have highlighted the inadequacies of the UK's care system and the high costs associated with implementing new services6 as well as the increasing costs that are associated with cycling placements or returns to care.7 Additionally, existing analyses have emphasised the challenges in conducting economic evaluations of interventions aimed at improving outcomes for maltreated children, which include the need for a long - term perspective, accounting for the context - specific nature of interventions, 8 and overcoming obstacles of cross-comparison due to variations in methods, samples etc..9

Interactions between sex and the relationship quality variables in predicting outcomes were explored; these interaction terms were not significant and thus were dropped from the final regression analyses.

Both cost — utility analyses where outcomes are measured in a common metric, such as the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) where a maximum cost per QALY deemed to be cost effective can be determined in different contexts, or cost — benefit analyses where both outcomes and costs are measured in monetary terms can be used to overcome this problem, although neither approach is without its own limitations (Kilian et al., 2010).

Further economic analysis, drawing on 15 - year outcome data (Olds et al., 1997) suggested that the economic case for home visiting for all women was much stronger, given the impacts it had in terms of reducing abuse, violence, the need for social welfare benefits and improved employment prospects (Karoly et al., 1998, 2005).