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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Process Measures"”.
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Does Health Information Technology Improve Hospital Process Measures?
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) incentivizes hospitals to utilize health information technology (HIT), including electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchange (HIE). Hospitals have responded by increasing the implementation …
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Towards a Process-Oriented Approach to Feedback Research
… and the actual use of feedback. Adopting a process-oriented perspective, this dissertation investigates task-level learning engagement as a central mechanism of the effectiveness of automated feedback on writing performance. Against the background of increasing digitalization and the growing …
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Preferences For Performance Measures: A Study Of A Federal Agency
… showed that managers preferred public good measures and clients preferred financial measures. Both groups' second preferred index of measures was internal management process measures. This research is important in policy formulation and provides many implications regarding the effective …
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Money, beer, and toys : essays on consumer decision making
… of consumers' goals during the shopping process, testing the model through a series of field experiments at a convenience store. Using a number of different process measures (experiment 1), we first established that consumers are less certain of their shopping goals and construe products …
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Resolving Attachment Injuries in Couples Using Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Process Study
… determine change events throughout the therapy process. A rational, conceptual map of expected change was compared to an empirically developed map. The marker events emerged at the assessment, de-escalation, and resolution phases of treatment. Pre- and post-tests measured overall resolution of …
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Assessment of Quality Preschool Programming
… Mounting evidence indicates that the structural measures of quality indicators typically used to validate preschool programs are not sufficient for determining quality experiences for students (e.g., Howes et al., 2008; Mashburn, et al., 2008). Whereas some studies have indicated that structural …
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The influence of affect on leader evaluations of subordinates: a laboratory simulation employing a process approach
… purpose of the present study was to examine the process by which affect influences evaluations and to examine the impact of affeet on outcome variables. A categorization-based model of the rating process was developed that included the influence of affect. According to the model, affect was …
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Implementation of an Innovative Early Warning System: Evidenced-based Strategies for Ensuring System-wide Nursing Adoption
… major changes to the AAM workflows and processes were developed that increased the sensitivity of the patients identified at risk for clinical deterioration, as well as the timeliness and clarity of clinical response. Expansion to two additional pilot hospitals using these revised …
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Screening and Brief Intervention for Hazardous Alcohol Use: A Pilot Study in a College Counseling Center
… problems at 1 and 2-month follow-up assessments. Process measures revealed that only half of providers referred eligible students despite high ratings of feasibility and acceptability of the program. Future research might examine this intervention with a larger sample as well as barriers to …
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Preconception and Interconception Health and Routine Health Service Use Among Women in a Rural Midwestern Community
… area. Secondary objectives were to quantify process measures of health care access and barriers to care, as well as determine disparities in preconception and interconception health status among women in this rural area as compared to statewide estimates. As existing national or state …
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Continuity in conflict: Past events and their impact upon current mediation effectiveness
… and it was assessed through the use of outcome measures, self-report measures, and process measures. It was demonstrated that events of past conflicts (notably past relationship structures and past outcomes) affect behavior in subsequent negotiations. Furthermore, the current study took a step …
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Rejection and Inclusion in Major Depressive Disorder
… psychological and neural basis of social processing in Major Depressive Disorder. This investigation was an attempt to resolve current conflicts and gaps in the social affective neuroscience literature regarding social functioning in depression. Chapter 1 consisted of a general …
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Designing behavioral health integration in primary care : a practical outcomes-based framework
… future researchers refine and standardize the process measures I introduce so that they can be used as guideposts by primary care practitioners to develop their BHIPC programs.
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Understanding and Changing the Patient Safety Culture in Canadian Hospitals
… Both leaders and front line workers look to both process measures (e.g., talking about safety and encouraging patient safety activities) together with outcome measures (e.g., adverse events, infection rates, and culture survey results) to evaluate their success in culture change. Overall this …
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A Mindfulness and Acceptance-based Intervention for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Obesity
… ACT group displayed significant improvements on measures of acceptance, distress tolerance, stigma, and values, although there were no between-group differences. The control group showed greater improvements on a measure of mindfulness, contradicting the proposed model. Thus, improvements on …
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Toward a transformational roadmap to end pj paralysis: A mixed-methods impact study on patient ambulation initiative at hospitals in Alberta
… of this initiative based on select outcome and process measures: Length of stay, inpatient falls, discharge disposition, pressure injury, provider experience, and patient mobilization and dressed rates. We analyzed quantitative datasets, including 32,884 patients discharge abstracts, based on …
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Education-Related Laws from the Perspective of Kuwaiti Official Influencers: An Exploratory Study
… In addition, the interviews delved into the process surrounding the formation and implementation of education-related laws, and the influences that can affect them. Lastly, data from the interviews identified areas for improvement in Kuwait's education-related law. During the interview …
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Some influences upon revisions of judgment.
… problems provides judges with knowledge of the process of advice generation, and differs from advice provided by advisors in JAS studies, as advice is self-generated by users of algorithmic decompositions. The current work sets out why both the JAS paradigm, and algorithmic decompositions are …
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The implementation of care regulations in residential disability services in Ireland
… health and social care services, including the processes and strategies that support the implementation process. Methods We adopted a multiple-methods approach to this research, albeit that the majority of the work was qualitative in nature. An overarching approach for the original research …
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Use of Reading Strategy to Assess Reading Medium Effectiveness: Application to Determine the Effects of Reading Medium and Generation in an Active Reading Task
… reading. Conflicting results from different measures (e.g., performance, preference) have been reported regarding their efficacy. Despite the fact that there are no significant performance differences between reading from paper and reading from electronic media, people still show a preference …
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