country of origin a surrogate for quality

... — Quality control Radiation — Safety measures I International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAL 07–00489 FOREWORD As part of a comprehensive approach to quality assurance (QA) in the treatment of cancer ... interpretation of the results of the audit is made against appropriate criteria of good radiotherapy practice (quality standards) As one example of such criteria, the IAEA has given a description of ... COMPREHENSIVE AUDITS OF RADIOTHERAPY PRACTICES: A TOOL FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMPREHENSIVE AUDITS OF RADIOTHERAPY PRACTICES: A TOOL FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT QUALITY ASSURANCE TEAM FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... of regulation and standards, developing organizational capacity, and models of care? What impact are those current activities having on the quality of health care and on outcomes? A process for ... Terol Garcia, Maimunah Hamid, Graham Harrison, Khaled Hassan, Dale Huntington, Tom Mboya Okeyo, Hugo Mercer, Henock Alois Mayombo Ngonyani, Sue Page, Zinta Podniece, Sarah Prendergast, Osama Samawi, ... Itziar Larizgoitia, Hernan Montenegro, Anselm Schneider, Paul Van Ostenberg, Martin Weber, and Stuart Whittaker Valuable input and advice were provided by Sandra Black, Alimata Diarra-Nama, Christine...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... Pedro Soares pedromortaguasoares@gmail.com Rute Santos rutemarinasantos@hotmail.com António Oliveira-Tavares oliveiratavares@netvisao.pt Jorge Mota jmota@fade.up.pt Joana Carvalho jcarvalho@fade.up.pt ... that these results are related to the fact that many experts are programme leaders and thus, are more aware of practices that pertain to Leadership Also, experts may have been aware of the fact ... 70 AACVPR: Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Programs 4th Edition edition American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Champaigh, IL.: Human...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... measures of earnings quality to proxy for audit quality These measures of earnings quality are drawn from prior literature that examines how accruals vary around events such as SEC violations and ... change in net sales revenue (Compustat annual data item 12); and PPE ϭ property, plant, and equipment—net (Compustat annual data item 8) All variables are scaled by average total assets The Accounting ... NY: MacMillan Publishing Company Mautz, R K., and H A Sharaf 1961 The Philosophy of Auditing American Accounting Association Monograph No Sarasota, FL: American Accounting Association Palmrose,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43

... adrenal gland Right adrenal gland Right kidney Incision Left kidney Inferior vena cava A Aorta B Duodenum Adrenal vein Vena cava Tumor Vena cava Adrenal gland Adrenal gland Renal vein Renal vein ... G Tajima, Y Sasaki, J Takayama, H Kurihara, M Niimi “Laparoscopic partial adrenalectomy.” Biomedical Pharmacotherapy 56 (2002) suppl.1: 126s–131s Martinez, D G “Adrenalectomy for primary aldosteronism.” ... Oxygen therapy P Pacemakers Pain management Pallidotomy Pancreas transplantation Pancreatectomy Paracentesis Parathyroidectomy Parotidectomy Patent urachus repair Patient confidentiality Patient...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... that patients can have an acceptable quality of life after gastrectomy for a potentially curable gastric cancer Many patients will maintain a healthy appetite and eat a normal diet Others may ... lower among African Americans This is true for the incidence of esophageal and gastric-cardio adenocarcinoma On the other hand, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians have a different form of cancer ... are differences in colon cancer mortality between African Americans and Caucasians African Americans with colon cancer have a 50% higher mortality risk than Caucasians Advanced cancer stage at...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... dynamics beyond the Caucasian frame of reference: the death of an African American grandmother, the Puerto Rican male experience of miscarriage, the death of a twin, the experience of a lesbian ... Death of a Grandparent An adolescent’s first experience of death may be the death of a grandparent or of a pet The reaction to these deaths varies depending on the quality and level of relationship ... in and took care of Delores and 2-year-old Isaac In fact, Delores would say that Grandmom was often more available than Mom Yes, Mom had to earn a living as there was no other source of family...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Therefore, separate aliquots of each subfraction were analysed for phosphate by means of the malachite green assay [21] calibrated against a standard curve generated with known concentrations of ... to date to suggest that Ap 4A and Ap 3A should have antagonistic effects in vivo in prokaryotes as well as in eukaryotes Therefore, although Ap 4A may appear to act as an immediate modulator of stress ... catalytic rates for Ap 4A and Ap 3A synthesis A variety of catalysis characterization techniques were employed to identify differences A radioactive assay using [14C]ATP was used to accurately measure...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... Two aircraft take off from an airfield One leaves at 14:00 and flies towards east at an average speed of 400 km/h The other leaves at 14:10 and flies on a course 60◦ east of north at an average speed ... choice of approximation is called ‘the midpoint rule’ for calculating an approximate value of the area A Numerical integration (or numerical quadrature) is a whole subject devoted to calculating areas ... fact, the way in which we have taken the limit in the above analysis is really a mental-scaffolding that allows us to approach the concept of a tangent to a curve in terms of ideas more familiar...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:31

... mechanisms to both A clearance and vascular pathology illustrate a somewhat unique example of microglial ambivalence While many had argued that microglial "activation" by A was at least partially ... with the majority of advanced cases of CAA [17] Wilcock et al [18] have now produced evidence that the appearance of CAA after immunization may represent an actual increase in this parameter triggered ... animal testing) for any strategy for antibody-mediated reduction of A in the AD brain List of abbreviations AD: Alzheimer's disease A : amyloid β-peptide CAA: cerebral amyloid angiopathy IL-1, -6,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... therapies – resulted in lower levels of disease activity than were previously seen As inflammation is a major driver of damage, an absence of inflammation a priori is a prerequisite for halting ... negative change score in an individual patient can be composed of 'true repair', of measurement error or of an image artefact such as rotation hiding a tangential erosion The interrelationship of ... least damage, and their single joint inferred assignment of progression or repair was slightly greater than expected by chance alone Taking all of the assignments of all readers separately, a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... changed my management of low back pain Triaging patient with low back pain after history taking and physical exam in uncomplicated, radicular and complicated back pain instead of making an anatomical ... Effects of a media campaign on back pain beliefs and its potential influence on management of low back pain in general practice Spine 2001, 26:2535-42 FORIS: Database for research projects in social ... and therapeutic approach and encouragement of physical activity While quality guidelines are becoming increasingly available, implementation of their recommendations remains a daunting task [4,5]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... changed my management of low back pain Triaging patient with low back pain after history taking and physical exam in uncomplicated, radicular and complicated back pain instead of making an anatomical ... Effects of a media campaign on back pain beliefs and its potential influence on management of low back pain in general practice Spine 2001, 26:2535-42 FORIS: Database for research projects in social ... and therapeutic approach and encouragement of physical activity While quality guidelines are becoming increasingly available, implementation of their recommendations remains a daunting task [4,5]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... increases in sales, or increases in an intermediate measure other than final sales Among the measures that are often advocated as appropriate intermediate measures are attitudinal changes caused ... factual recall technique that assumes that factual recall of advertising leads to attitudinal and behavioral changes, which by themselves are an adequate measure of the effectiveness of the advertising, ... Investment-generating Locality Britain Canada CostaRica Ireland Jamaica Malaysia Scotland Singapore Thailand Promotionagency techniques used Investin Britain Bureau(IBB) InvestmentCanada CostaRicanInvestmentPromotion...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 23:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2017, 11:54

... Germany are rated better than those of Asia, India and Western Europe and Us products are also rated better than those of India and Western Europe A study of Nagashima (1970) shows that Japanese ... analyses The Cronbach’s Alpha and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) were used again to test the reliability and validity of the measurements basing on the official data The linear correlation and ... (CI) and one mediating variable (BD) Basing on above information and calculation, the author selected a sample size of 240 for all analyses The author used the paper questionnaire to get information...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2018, 10:36

... 1980 in an attempt to improve communication In addition, two research journals (International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Forecasting) and an annual International Symposium on Forecasting ... Forecasting,” Mead and Islam’s “Forecasting the Diffusion of Innovations,” Brodie et al.’s “Econometric Models for Forecasting Market Share,” and Fader and Hardie’s “Forecasting Trial Sales of ... WARRANTY AND PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE Tavares, L V / ADVANCED MODELS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT Tayur, S., Ganeshan, R & Magazine, M / QUANTITATIVE MODELING FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Weyant, J./ ENERGY AND...

Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2018, 16:11