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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Core Measures"”.
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Children's Process of Care Measure Implementation Readiness
National adult acute care outcome tracking was instituted in 2000 under the assumption that doing so, and publicly reporting the results, would lead to improvements in the healthcare industry and lives saved. The results speak for themselves. Unfortunately, the process has yet to be mandated in the …
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Implementation of a Helicobacter Pylori Test and Treat Program in Rural Nepal Facilitated by a Nurse Practitioner Doctor of Nursing Practice Comprehensive Project Report
… employing the Doctor Nursing Practice core measures facilitates improvement in health care processes to close the quality chasm in resource-poor communities.</p>
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An Evaluation of the Systematic Identification and Treatment of Tobacco Use Among Patients in an Academic Medical Center
… The Joint Commission recently developed core measures for screening and treatment of tobacco use, as hospitalization provides a good opportunity for helping patients to quit smoking. This study was undertaken to evaluate a new program that systematically identifies and offers treatment to …
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Measuring Evolutionary Testability of Real-Time Software
… the size of a program's input. New complexity measures are introduced which attempt to capture these aspects of evolutionary testability. The validation of the measures through a technique which was introduced by Shepperd and Ince, identifies three core measures which can be used to predict …
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The Effects of an Educational Program on Recognition of Atypical Signs and Symptoms of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Women in the Emergency Room
… present to the ED as measured by an increase in CORE measures: TNKase in less than 30 minutes from arrival in the ED, number of women who received ASA in the ED, and EKG in less than 10 minutes from arrival at the ED.;This capstone project used a one group pretest -- posttest quasi-experimental …
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Reassessment of bone parameters and evaluation of a bone biopsy technique for determining calcium and phosphorus status of swine from weaning to market
… to market weight on the relationships between measures of Ca/P status of postweaning swine, and to derive response surfaces relating diet and time effects to observed performance and bone characteristics. Pigs were slaughtered every 4 weeks following the start of the trials to obtain third and …
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Evidence-based Change in Practice: Development and Implementation of Type II Diabetic Flow Sheet
<p>Ten percent of the National Health Service annual budget goes to treat complications from diabetes (Lancet, 2010).<strong><em> </em></strong>The American Diabetes Association® (ADA, 2013) estimated that diabetics in the United States incur $176 billion annually in direct medical costs for …