... team must consist of at least one intensivist and one nurse; a management representative and a data manager are suggested as additional members To target the lack of motivation to change, team ... prospective barriers analysis, it appeared that many barriers concerned the basic NICE feedback reports To target the lack of case-mix correction and lack of information to initiate QI actions, the basic ... identified barriers to using performance data and how they are targeted by thefeedback intervention Additional file 2: Content ofthefeedback reports Summary ofthe content ofthe quarterly and monthly...
... However, for one ofthe SWN subscales, emotional regulation, OR for response was almost for SfW participants compared with controls in the sensitivity analysis The content ofthe emotional regulation ... of persons with schizophrenia [30], and also because this scale was already part ofthe SfW program in Scandinavia and thefeedback from the SfW instructors about the ability ofthe participants ... and included evaluation ofthe impact of behavioural weight management onthe quality of life (QoL) or subjective well-being ofthe participants In one randomized trial, a one -on- one nutrition...
... extensively analyzed For example, Stern et al (1995) analyzed the relationships between values, New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale, a scale of awareness of consequences (AC) of general environmental conditions ... description ofthe 5-degree scale is modified The behavior score part has totally 21 questions and is asked in every round ofthe program, forthe reason that one ofthe aim ofthe program is to validate ... between attendees and non-attendees in the number of adopted energy-saving measures Staats (2004) used an intervention package containing information, feedback and social interaction in his EcoTeam...
... data and evidences again to monitor, analyze, and evaluate the generated the above hypothesis and the to evaluate the outcomes II.1.2.7 Analysis and evaluation The ultimately step of an action ... After each lesson, the sheet was collected to calculate the data This observation sheet was used five times: one at the pre-action stage and four at the action stage The one in pre-action stage ... questionnaire at the pre-action stage and after the action stage are designed to find out the real thought of students ofthe speaking lessons and obstacles they are facing II.2.1.2 Construction of...
... multilingual statistical machine translation In Proceedings ofthe Joint Conference ofthe 47th Annual Meeting ofthe ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing ofthe ... lower than forthe former tasks 2.1 Annotation Noise Studies on active learning for WSD have been limited to running simulations of AL using gold standard data and a coarse-grained annotation scheme ... simulation is as close to real-world data as possible, we not create an artificial data set as done in (Schein and Ungar, 2007; Reidsma and Carletta, 2008) but use real data from a WSD task for the...
... General information (age, gender, education, marital status, time of diagnosis) - The results ofthe test and evaluation conditions - The internal reliability ofthe QOL-AD questionaire (Cronbach ... life of their caregivers and to evaluate theeffectivenessofa number of non-pharmacological interventions International assessment scales were translated and adapted toVietnamese and appliedsuccessfully ... methods to assess the QOL of Alzheimer's patients': patients’self-evaluation, caregivers gave evaluation and direct observation onthe behavior and activities related to the quality of life of patients...
... that the value of chest compressions outweigh the risk of skeletal damage and conclude that the risk of fracture should not deter an adequate and Page of appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation ... Cite this article as: McKay et al.: Are chest compressions safe forthe patient reconstructed with sternal plates? Evaluatingthe safety of cardiopulmonary resuscitation using a human cadaveric ... comparison between control and cadaveric specimens Specimen Number of fractures Location of fractures Control lateral, xyphoid Cadaver 1 inferolateral Cadaver 2 lateral, xyphoid Cadaver lateral...
... research ethics board at the University of Western Ontario Using the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada[50], Provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons[51] and the Canadian ... can serve as a proof of concept forevaluating MEDLINE search filters in other subject areas and for other audiences If our research Page of 10 can prove a positive impact of search filters on ... Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,...
... Care Unit, Osaka University Hospital, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan 2Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan Published: 22 May 1998 References ... et al Critical Care 1998, 2:79 http://ccforum.com number of bacteria after hand-washing /the number of bacteria before hand-washing)] Values are calculated from raw data and expressed as mean ... that ofthe conventional, alcohol lotion showed significantly higher rates of bacterial removal than that of hand-washing with tap water (52.1 ± 11.3%; P < 0.05) Nosocomial infections are a major...
... Canada Authors’ contributions The authors have participated in design and preparation ofthe study (RBM, CBH, MKP, JCN), collection of data (RBM, CBH, MKP), analysis of data (all), drafting the ... group (laypeople and firefighters) using the paired t-test Stata IC 10.1 (StataCorp, Texas, USA) was used for statistical analysis An a priori analysis was done and the necessary sample size was estimated ... bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Japan Resuscitation 2000, 44:187-193 Taniguchi T, Omi W, Inaba H: Attitudes toward the performance of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Japan...
... respondents agree about these expectations In organizations where there is a great deal of consensus along these measures, these shared behavioral norms demonstrate a strong organizational culture and a ... implementation, and comparisons ofthe performance of American firms with that of European and Japanese competitors, researchers began to include the concept of culture as a plausible explanation for ... a variety of sources to collect data as well as quantitative and qualitative methods for analyzing the data The data oneffectivenessof supplier diversity was categorized using deductive analysis...
... quickly advance their skills in almost any area of language study extensive reading is indispensable The discussion in the above 10 paragraphs, taken as a whole, reveals that the current situation of ... major variable motivating the decision to read in a second language (Day and Bamford, 1998, p.28) Day and Bamford suggested that applying the extensive reading approach in English language learning ... generally associated with reading large amounts with the aim of getting an overall understanding ofthe material Readers are more concerned with the meaning ofthe text than the meaning of individual...
... to the following questions: (1) Can the success of Italian banks be traced back to the privatization ofthe savings banks? (2) What impact did the privatization have on (a) the provision of banking ... remained roughly constant (Table 1) At the same time, the profitability of Italian banks has soared; that of German banks has dropped (Figure 1) The Italian Privatization of Savings Banks1 3.1 The ... that it may lead to a deterioration in the availability of banking services In fact, the regional provision of banking services can be seen as one ofthe main rationales forthe existence of...
... dealing with a new initiative (such as a patient safety taxonomy and data aggregation tool), make certain that all consumers ofthe information understand what they are reading and how to use the ... accordance with recognized standards of care Some of these standards emanate from legislation or regulations Others are generated by national trade associations Standards play a key role in the ... Benchmark Data Become the Standard of Care • How Consumers Use Benchmark Data • Conclusion: Using Benchmark Data to Achieve Patient Safety Compliance Creation and Preservation of Reports, Data, and...
... in the GP database ofthe Capital area and in the laboratory database Data collection Data on performed split test procedures is retrieved from the laboratory database These data not contain any ... Capital Region databases provide information onthe participating practices and corresponding GPs Page of and control arms, randomization within each RCT is done separately for group practices and solo ... practices respectively This randomization was conducted by the data manager ofthe Research Unit of General Practice without knowledge ofthe individual practice identification Data from the capital...
... (case 1), the second forthe Trapezoidal cross-section (case 2), and the third forthe Triangle cross-section (case 3) and the last one forthe Circle cross-section (case 4) The general parameters ... seal the microchannels, the layer of PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) was bonded onthe top side ofthe substrate The PMMA has the thermal conductivity of 0.19 W/(mK) and density of 1,420 kg/m3 The ... evaporation ofthe water, for case Figure The temperature distribution forthe middle slice ofthe channel Figures and show the thermal field and the curve of temperature during the length of channel...
... “Communicative Language Teaching is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language It is also ... experimental class was 10 and the lowest was Actually, in the experimental class, the difference among each individual in vocabulary acquirement was greater than that among the members ofthe control ... experimental and the other as the control class Similarly, two teachers almost similar in respect of educational qualifications, age, training, and experience at teaching to non-English majors and their...
... Infarction: Secondary prevention in primary and secondary care for patients following a myocardial infarction Anonymous London: National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care and Royal College of ... explore the barriers and facilitators to Ontario family physicians’ acceptance and utilization of performance feedback, and to examine the perceived actionability of various approaches to the design ... of small improvement in the management of these very common chronic diseases could translate into a large impact onthe population scale Based on pilot data, the standard deviation forthe composite...
... phrases organizational transformation and transformational changes For example, King defined organizational transformation as, 'a planned change designed to significantly improve overall organizational ... supported Center for Health Organization Transformation and Professor and Head ofthe Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A& M Health Science ... publications Data abstraction Both authors reviewed the included studies and arrived at a consensus onthe abstracted information Setting included type of health service organization and if the article...