Sentences with phrase «using measured outcomes»

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When it's hard to measure business outcomes, marketers use metrics that stand in for those numbers: activity not results, quantity not quality, efficiency not effectiveness.

Nor is value measured by the process of care used; process measurement and improvement are important tactics but are no substitutes for measuring outcomes and costs.

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermediate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed ailments on only six of them.

[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

Measuring 29 health outcomes using three - level (good, intermed.iate, or bad) scoring, the prayer group suffered fewer newly diagnosed a.ilments on only six of them.

NICE recommends the use of a version of the Quality - Adjusted Life - Year as its principal outcome measure (EQ - 5D), partly to enable

Participants will be able to compare their natural resource use from year to year and measure outcomes to changed practices.

The primary outcome was the mean healthiness of all packaged food purchases over the 4 - wk intervention period, which was measured by using the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Nutrient Profiling Scoring Criterion (NPSC).

More rigorous longitudinal studies using outcome measures focusing on movement quality are recommended to understand any long - lasting influence on the motor skills in these infants.

Main outcome measure A composite primary outcome of perinatal mortality and intrapartum related neonatal morbidities (stillbirth after start of care in labour, early neonatal death, neonatal encephalopathy, meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, fractured humerus, or fractured clavicle) was used to compare outcomes by planned place of birth at the start of care in labour (at home, freestanding midwifery units, alongside midwifery units, and obstetric units).

Ideally, we would need to conduct controlled experiments — randomly assigning parents to use a particular parenting style, and measuring long - term outcomes.

The American Association of Pediatricians statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk (2005) states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»

The outcome measures used in most studies of birthplace and models of maternity care are obstetric intervention rates and birth outcomes [1 - 6,8,9].

The definition of low risk used in the cohort study was based on criteria contained in the NICE Intrapartum Care Guidelines.11 The primary clinical outcome was a composite measure of adverse perinatal outcomes encompassing perinatal mortality and specified neonatal morbidities (box).

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using direct observation, direct assessment, or administrative records were included.

We used mean difference (MD) with 95 % confidence interval (CI), employing a random - effects model for continuous outcomes measured on the same scales.

Using age - and gender - specific z scores for the repeated measures outcome variable and birth weight as the covariate, the between - group variable (breastfeeding medication group) was significant (P =.005).

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

Main outcome measures included perinatal death, intra-partum death, death attributed to intra-partum asphyxia, Apgar score less than 7 at 5 mins, use of specialized neonatal care, operative delivery, perineal injury and post-partum hemorrhage.

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.

In future updates, as appropriate, we will use the standardised mean difference to combine trials that measure the same outcome, but used different methods.

In future updates, for continuous data, we will use the mean difference if outcomes are measured in the same way between trials.

Meta - analyses help in establishing robust patterns, but studies often use very different measures of both paternal involvement and children's outcomes, making comparisons difficult.

A number of research reviews and syntheses have been published that examined the relationship between family - centered helpgiving practices and parent, family, and child outcomes.26, 22,27,5,28,29,30,31 The studies in these reviews and syntheses used different measures of family - centered capacity - building helpgiving, many of which assessed either or both relational and participatory helpgiving practices.

Main Outcomes and Measures Stool microbiome composition was characterized using next - generation sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene.

Nationally, any amount of breastfeeding is used as a definition of breastfeeding to assess breastfeeding rates.2, 3 In keeping with this definition, we described breastfeeding as receiving any breast milk at 12 weeks as our primary outcome measure.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

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.

The effects of the dietary intervention, mode of feeding (breast - fed or formula - fed), and time were evaluated by using three - factor repeated - measures ANOVA for the outcomes of reported number of egg yolks consumed; reported consumption of meat, chicken, and fish; reported consumption of baby cereal; reported consumption of adult cereal; erythrocyte DHA and AA; plasma cholesterol; and indexes of iron status.

When comparing outcomes across birth settings, the use of consistent definitions and inclusion criteria across cohorts, and reliable outcome measures, is imperative.

If necessary, we planned to use the standardised mean difference to combine trials that measured the same outcome, but used different methods.

Getting comparable statistics is difficult as the statistics for different countries may use different samples (including or not those who receive lesser sentences or various forms of caution), measure different outcomes (re-arrest, re-conviction or re-imprisonment).

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

Placebos are used to help accurately measure clinical responses / outcomes when studying the effects of medications, therapies, and other treatments.

In one of the experiments conducted with university students in the US, the researchers measured how often participants cheated in reporting the outcome of a die roll; in the other experiment with adults in India, they measured participants» willingness to use unethical negotiation strategies.

We believe this scale holds particular promise if used as a measure in multivariate research and evaluation efforts that investigate outcome expectations alongside other constructs to understand public engagement comprehensively.

«Various patient - reported outcome measures looking at pain, instability, swelling and the ability to perform routine activities after ACL reconstruction are commonly used.

Using validated, standardized tests for measuring the outcomes of patients with facial paralysis, experts who were naïve to the treatment patients received studied video documentation of a standardized sequence of facial expressions for each patient.

Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the current increasing use of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»

They measured educational outcomes using standardized tests and looked at demographic data, including attendance and suspension; race and ethnicity; free and reduced price lunch status; and participation in gifted education, special education, or programs for English learners.

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

However, I would question using pain as an outcome measure,» says Michael Liebschner, a biomechanics specialist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

Neither was there any consensus as to the use of combined outcome measures, time frames for improvement, or adverse effects.

They plan to do this by activating the neurons in these regions using electrodes and measuring the impact on learning outcomes.

Treatment outcomes were evaluated using blood - based muscle damage markers and hormones, perceptual measures of muscle soreness, and counter-movement jump performance.

The researchers developed algorithms to use in a «systems biology modeling cycle,» in which they repeatedly fit a model to gene expression data obtained from laboratory experiments until a good fit was obtained between the predicted and the measured outcomes.

They found that in all nine cases, their data matched the outcomes seen in patients, as measured by clinical protein biomarkers found in the bloodstream, which are used by doctors to determine whether a drug is killing the tumor cells.