power quality improvement in end users stage

... Congress on the Interagency Working Group on Health Care Quality s activities in October 2011, available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/ Interagency Working Group on Health Care Quality Member ... Veterans Health Administration Annual Progress Report to Congress National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care The Interagency Working Group on Health Care Quality met again in December ... which all Stage Meaningful Use recommendations would be viewed A focus on reducing quality- reporting burden on providers led http://www.cms.gov/Medicare /Quality- Initiatives-Patient-AssessmentInstruments/QualityMeasures/QualityMeasurementImpactReports.html...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... expertise in relation to selecting samples for audit, applying definitional criteria, interpreting data, and providing feedback Medical knowledge was also critical to synthesizing clinical information ... program leaders in this respect They played a key role in shaping an organisational vision for what could be achieved through investing in quality improvement and in articulating how ABCD would ... disease focus and an interest in being involved in CQI Successful leaders engaged staff in building a shared organizational vision as well as in making sense of what ABCD would mean in relation to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... routine incidentreporting systems but without requiring substantial investments of additional resources Moreover, the direct involvement of clinicians in the detection of patient safety and quality- of-care ... engagement in quality improvement as a distinct career pathway [15] Involving such physicians in METs will likely facilitate the dual roles of METs as a clinical outreach arm of the intensive ... physician agreement in a retrospective chart review Ann Intern Med 1996, 125:457-464 Shojania KG, Levinson W: Clinicians in quality improvement: a new career pathway in academic medicine JAMA 2009,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... admission are shown in Table The regression model including seven variables explained 20% of the total variance (Table 3) Predictive factors of improvement in quality of life during the inpatient programme ... normalised in order to obtain a value between and 100 inclusive (100*(score obtained – minimum score possible)/(maximum score possible – minimum score possible)), a high score indicating a good ... during care and the influence of QoL on the prognosis of alcoholism are unknown (22, 23) The aims of this study in a clinical setting was: 1) to determine the change in QoL of alcohol-dependent...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:52

... average time from buying to harvesting is four months There is one main shrimp crop per year, starting in January and finishing in May With intensive methods, harvesting can continue for some months ... and principles to apply HACCP quality control standards, resulting in hazard infection in final shrimp products Market problems Market problems affecting product quality include consumer information ... of HACCP in quality systems at all crucial points in the supply chain is increasing Consumers now tend to emphasize product quality and hygiene rather than quantity, which leads to increased...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 09:34

... Medicine 2011, 9:12 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/12 Figure Intraoperative view showing clinical application of stem cells into the failing heart with multiple targeted injections ... approach in two severely symptomatic patients suffering from ICM who were hospitalized due to recurrent pulmonary oedema on minimal effort requiring intermittent inotropic support (INTERMACS ... improved intrinsic myocardial contractile properties [12] Regarding ICM, LVAD support cannot lead to repopulation of the infarcted tissue with contracting cardiomyocytes This fact could explain the inability...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Table Indicators of quality of care that climacteric stage women receive in family medicine clinics Indicator Formula I Health promotion Counseling about climacteric stage and menopause in the ... Improving the quality of health care Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care BMJ 2003, 326:816-819 Page 11 of 12 17 Freeman T: Using performance indicators ... vaginal HT indicated appropriately (10.3) vaginal HT not indicated 78 (89.7) b) women without moderate to severe vaginal atrophy symptoms or with oral HT vaginal HT indicated vaginal HT not indicated...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and ribavirin Compared to the baseline, the responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality while of the domain scores declined in non responders at the end of treatment ... non-responders comparing the change in the HRQOL scores from baseline (Table 5) The responders had a more prominent decrease in all domains, except bodily pain There was no statistical difference in the HRQOL ... Change in SF-36 norm based Domain scores in non-responders among refractory HCV patients re-treated with pegylated interferon alpha 2b and ribavirin SF-36 domain Change in scores compared to baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... placebo in the improvement of HRQL relating mainly to gastrointestinal symptom relief In a multivariate analysis, van Rossum et al also did not find any influence of clinical data on changes in the ... to take part in the investigation Subsequently, an in- depth interview was carried out with each patient, with special attention paid to baseline angina and gastrointestinal symptom intensity and ... high quality evidence supporting a clinically significant clopidogrel and PPI interaction is presently lacking [39] In the recent study on Clopidogrel and the Optimization of Gastrointestinal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... detecting the occurrence of disturbances in frames whose lengths correspond to at least N = 16 samples, independent of the choice of the sampling rate; and (iii) it pinpoints the start and end points ... analysis in power lines,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 53, no 5, pp 1353–1361, 2004 [14] H.-T Yang and C.-C Liao, “A de-noising scheme for enhancing wavelet-based power quality ... special issues on Emerging Signal Processing Techniques for Power Quality Applications and on Advanced Signal Processing and Computational Intelligence Techniques for Power Line Communications for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... would tremendously increase the value of power quality monitoring as proposed in [4] There are two streams of power quality data analysis, that is, offline and online analyses The offline power quality ... “Distance estimation technique for single line-to-ground faults in aradial distribution system,” in IEEE of Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, vol 4, pp 2551–2555, Singapore, January 2000 Mark ... packages ONLINE AND OFFLINE POWER QUALITY MONITORING As utilities and industrial customers have expanded their power quality monitoring systems, the data management, analysis, and interpretation functions...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... changes in processes of care [7] However, twelve months was likely insufficient to distinguish between improvement in clinical performance and improvement in data collection systems In quality improvement ... improvement intervention trials, longer follow-up periods are commonly advocated for the sake of better ascertaining sustained improvement [12,35] In the setting of clinical practices adopting quality improvement ... Implementing Evidence-based Practice, Roudebush VAMC, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... working conferences; and focusing on sharing, exchanging, joint learning, and external peer support Although only in the first stages of development and validation, our instrument seems a promising ... gathering the right individuals for an improvement team, committing to change, and securing time, resources, and management support Engaging in a ‘model for improvement is assumed to build the internal ... Methods The instrument was developed in several steps Developing an instrument with content validity ’Factors influencing success in a QIC’ is the focal construct of this QIC instrument To increase...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... below The intervention was a phased RCT, with 22 ICUs (intervention group II) randomized to begin the intervention seven months after the 23 ICUs in intervention group I initiated the intervention ... behaviors that the study intervention sought to increase: appropriate hand hygiene; chlorhexidine skin preparation; full barrier precautions during line insertion; subclavian vein placement; and ask ... AB, Falconer JA, Herrin J, Uomoto J: Measuring team process for quality improvement Top Stroke Rehabil 2010, 17:282-293 Helfrich CD, Weiner BJ, McKinney MM, Minasian L: Determinants of implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... records Inclusion criteria were having at least one primary care appointment in the preceding 12 months in a participating practice, and having one pending appointment scheduled within the three ... implementing research in practice, including effects of context; to test the effectiveness of EBQI for adapting research-based CCM while maintaining its effectiveness; and to provide information ... 50% improvement in anti-depressant prescribing assuming an intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.01, and nine sites, with 46 patients per site, the study would have about 81% power using...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... delivered academic detailing to clinicians in the patient-centered intervention guided each clinician through his or her personal interactive communication skills training program in a one-on-one or ... related to depression included in the training program: recognizing depression; evaluating patients for associated conditions and suicidal ideation; assessing functioning and coping strategies, knowledge ... training, board certification status, practice experience) X Specialty (internal medicine or family medicine) X Previous communication skills CME training X X Previous mental health CME training...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... definitions or explanations in the glossary, examples or illustrations Print: Selecting 'Print' in the browser or from the Windows Help system will print the contents of the main NorthStar window ... contains the following An outline of the section Introduction Things to consider One or two paragraphs introducing the topic Checklists; background information; protocol considerations (relating ... relevant clinical practice guidelines (Clinical Practice Guidelines) It also discusses the why, what and how of measuring baseline performance defined as the measurement of actual clinical practice...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... difference being an in- frame insertion of 36 bp in Ara h 2.02, resulting in an insertion of 12 amino acids containing an extra copy of the sequence DPYSPS, a known allergenic IgE-binding epitope ... and DIGE on the protein extracts from knockout mutants SM performed IgE binding analysis on mutant Ara h 2.01 proteins CCH assisted in generating, advancing, and maintaining the mutagenized populations ... Mutations In total, nine SNPs were identified in Ara h 2.01, and five in Ara h 2.02 The first two amino-acid changes identified were in Ara h 2.01 in lines 20-6 (L 49 F) and 37-4 (R 55 H; Table 3) Line...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20