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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Interrupted time series"”.
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A Multicentre Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Delirium in Adult Intensive Care Units: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
… among adults admitted to ICUs in Alberta. An interrupted time series analysis using retrospective linked clinical and administrative data from November 2014 to June 2019 was conducted in 14 adult general medical-surgical and one neurological ICU in Alberta. All patient admissions from each …
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Market Response to Food and Drug Administration's Safety Warnings: a Case Study Using an Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Medicare Database for 2006-2008
… oral anti-diabetes medication using an interrupted time series analysis. Methods: We extracted data from a five percent national sample of Medicare Part D beneficiaries for the periods between January 2006 and December 2008. Beneficiaries with Part D claims for thiazolidinediones were …
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Civilian Aviation Screening: A Time-Series Analysis of Confiscated Firearms at Screening Checkpoints
… research required the performance of an interrupted time series analysis. Interrupted time series analysis evaluates the impact of one or more events on the values in the time series. An interrupted time series analysis attempts to determine whether an outside event affected subsequent …
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Time series analysis for evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship interventions
… and in the hospital setting where, at any given time, approximately one third of all patients receive antibiotics. It is important to understand what antimicrobial stewardship interventions are effective in reducing inappropriate prescribing and influence resistance without worsening clinical …
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THE IMPACT OF A CROWDSOURCING APPARATUS ON ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY IN THE NONPROFIT CONTEXT: THE CASE OF BAR-KAYMA
… associated with BK. A quasi-experimental interrupted time-series design was formulated, and a mixture of quantitative and qualitative techniques were utilized to evaluate the impact of BNK on each of BK’s three organizational capitals. Financial capital was evaluated using an interrupted …
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The Impact of Civilian Oversight on the Number of Complaints Made Against the Police
… oversight. Methodology. This project uses Interrupted Time Series with Comparison Group statistical procedure to test the impact of Austin’s civilian oversight program on the number of complaints and allegations that are filed against police officers. The study uses City of San Antonio’s …
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Group Parent Training and Collaboration on Functional-Assessment Based Intervention in Reducing Children's Challenging Behaviors
… functional-assessment based interventions. An Interrupted Time Series (ITS) Design was used to examine the effects of large group training by comparing parent and child behaviors prior to intervention with behaviors after the intervention. Data was analyzed using Repeated Measures ANOVA. The …
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Effects of the US Capitol Attack on political views in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
… a type of exogenous shock, thus allowing for an interrupted time series analysis. I find that satisfaction with democracy generally declined across all three countries but only in Chile did support for democracy and elections fall and populist attitudes rise.
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Assessing the Impact of Tort Reforms on Physician Supply Trends in Texas
… the Texas Department of State Health Services. Interrupted time-series analysis evaluates the data for trends in regards to the number of physicians per 100,000 residents in the state of Texas as a whole and also the physician trends for the five most populated Texas counties. Results: The …
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Effect Sizes for Single Case Experimental Designs and Their Utility for a Meta-Analysis: A Simulation Study
… designs which produce data akin to short interrupted time-series, where observations may not be independent due to autocorrelation. This thesis evaluated the statistical properties of various effect sizes for a reversal ABA'B' SCED via a simulation study. Hedges, Pustejovsky, and Shadishs …
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Patterns of revenues for public elementary and secondary school education derived as a result of state lotteries: a case study of Michigan and New York
… in 1986 are included in this research. An interrupted time-series design was employed to research the stability, reliability and yield of revenue from the state lotteries of Michigan and New York. Resultant data indicated that although in absolute dollars net lottery figures are impressive, …
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Teaching Shape Recognition to Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities
… This study utilized a small sample, interrupted time series (single-case) multiple-probe design across four behaviors that were (a) matching identical shapes, (b) matching shapes that are different sizes, (c) matching shapes that have different orientations, and (d) shape recognition. …
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“Will I follow you into the dark?": Effects of celebrity suicide on suicide-attempt rates
… were not evaluated following the reporting. Interrupted time-series (ITS) analysis evaluated suicide-attempt and death rates in Seattle from daily police-reported suicide incidents from January 11, 2012 to December 10, 2014. The suicide-attempt rate observed in the month following Williams’s …
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A Prospective Investigation to Develop Data-Driven Interventions and Improve Process Efficiency at a Level II Trauma Center
… detrimental disruptions. A multiple-baseline interrupted time-series (ITS) design was used to gauge the effectiveness of the interventions introduced.</p> <p>Significant differences were found in the frequency of disruptions between the pre-intervention (n=65 cases, 1137 disruptions) and …
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The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis
… regulatory problems preceding bank failures, 2) interrupted time series analysis of trends in agency enforcement actions, and 3) a statistical comparison of the proportion of bank failures and bank bailout recipients supervised by each agency.</p> <p>Evidence for capture is mixed. Interrupted …
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Impact of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4 and 6 Inhibitors on Chemotherapy Utilization and Overall Survival in Women with HR+/HER2– Metastatic Breast Cancer in the United States
… MBC in the United States (US). Methods: Using an interrupted time series design, patients with a confirmed diagnosis of MBC aged ≥ 65 years initiating systemic therapy during 2010-2019 were selected from the SEER- Medicare database. The proportion of chemotherapy use was summarized quarterly based …
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Cinematherapy as a Clinical Intervention: Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Credibility
… & Jackson, 2001). Using a single-subject interrupted time-series design (Glass, 1997) the subject completed the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS; Beck & Steer, 1993) and an adapted sentence completion task for 11 weeks in order to assess the effect that the cinematherapy intervention had on …
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The United States Supreme Court's Volitional Agendas, 1801-1993: Historical Claims versus Empirical Findings
… methods of classical historical analysis and of interrupted time-series analysis. Data for my research came from existing datasets and from my own collection (I coded the manifest content of thousands of Supreme Court's decisions from 1887 back to 1801). The most important finding from my …
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The New Orleans Police Department: Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans
… competing explanations. Utilizing higher-ordered time series methodology, two analyses were conducted. The first utilized interrupted time-series analysis to identify the nature of COMSTAT's impact on New Orleans' crime trends, measured as changes in the current quarter compared to the same …
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An evaluation of the development and implementation of a clinical guideline for nurse led extubation of adult coronary artery bypass graft patients
… care through the use of the guideline (interrupted time series (ITS». 3. Explore the results of the ITS and identify important factors for the successful implementation of the guideline (qualitative study). A mixed methods approach in a single case study was used. New evidence in the …
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