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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"standardized procedures"”.
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Improving Patient Satisfaction, Wait Times, and Access to Care in a College Health Setting; Expanding the RN Role as Prescribing Agent With Standardized Procedures
… multidisciplinary and collaborative in creating standardized procedures, guided by the board of nursing that allows RNs to provide medication under protocol. Patients with low acuity needs, such as those who seek contraception, can be cared for by the RN who can provide medication as the …
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Spacecraft and Propulsion Technician Error
… human life demands that changes be made to the standardized procedures, training, and certification to reduce human error and failure rates. Several recommendations were made by this study to the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, space launch vehicle operators, and maintenance …
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Parent-to-Parent Support for Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: A Conceptual Framework
… Studies were selected and reviewed based on standardized procedures. Results: Data was identified, extracted and organized into libraries of thematic and descriptive content. A conceptual framework of parent-to-parent support for parents of children who are D/HH was developed and presented in …
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Thermoluminescence in Carbonate Rocks and its Application to Stratigraphic correlation and Geologic Age Determination
… chemical investigations, tectonic studies, and standardized procedures must be carried out and perfected. In the absence of such studies, thermoluminescence must remain a geologic aid of doubtful accuracy.</p>
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Improvement proposal to increase productivity of a SME in the primary manufacturing sector using standardized labor and TPM tools
… sorting of raw material, due to the lack of standardized procedures, lack of protocols and disorder in the sorting area. To address these problems, an improvement model was developed based on 5S tools, standardized work and TPM (autonomous and preventive maintenance). To validate the model, a …
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DYSPHAGIA TREATMENT PLANNING: ASSESSING CLINICIANS’ TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MODIFIED BARIUM SWALLOW STUDY REPORTS
… the MBS, most settings have not adopted such standardized procedures. High variability of assessment patterns arguably contribute to variability of treatment recommendations made from diagnostic information derived from the MBS. An online survey was distributed to SLPs participating in …
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DYSPHAGIA TREATMENT PLANNING: ASSESSING CLINICIANS’ TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MODIFIED BARIUM SWALLOW STUDY REPORTS
… the MBS, most settings have not adopted such standardized procedures. High variability of assessment patterns arguably contribute to variability of treatment recommendations made from diagnostic information derived from the MBS. An online survey was distributed to SLPs participating in …
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Image analysis of prostate cancer tissue biomarkers
… still limited by technological problems, lack of standardized procedures and inadequate interpretation. In this work we investigated a group of tissue biomarkers as well as new technologies and computerized approaches for consistent and reproducible analyses. We also tested an automated approach …
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Towards integrated service delivery for children with autism spectrum disorder in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
… children with ASD in the country. There are no standardized procedures for identification, diagnosis and management of children with autism. The Western Cape is one of the better resourced provinces in the country in terms of ASD services, yet educational opportunities for these children are …
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Effects of Two Modes of Training Observers in the Systematic Assessment of Patient Functioning in Mental Institutions
… In addition, the susceptibility of training procedures to consensual observer drift and the predictability of TSBC mastery from trainee characteristics were also examined. Two equated groups of undergraduate students (N = 15 each) participated in full-time training on the TSBC and another …
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The effect of ageing on the innervation and total collagen content of human colon
… were demonstrated by immunohistochemical method. Standardized procedures were utilised to ensure unbiased counting and densitometric evaluation for further quantitative analysis. The results of the present study demonstrated that greater collagen content was present in the submucosa and muscularis …
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IMMUNOPROFILE IN EFFUSION CYTOLOGY
… immunocytochemistry of effusion cytology has now standardized procedures that provide reliable insights into various diagnostic dilemmas. OBJECTIVE: To describe the method of immunocytochemistry in effusion cytology and to estimate the value of a panel of markers in identifying cells in canine and …
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A state-of-practice survey of health and environmental assessment in the Canadian north
… change and human health; the absence of standardized procedures; as well as economic and temporal barriers. Adapting the EA process to the specific needs of the North, including local culture and customs, and diverse knowledge systems is therefore necessary for EA practice to be …
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Finger force capability: measurement and prediction using anthropometric and myoelectric measures
… using surface electromyography obtained from standardized forearm locations. Such processes are of utility when designing and evaluating hand tools and human-machine interfaces involving finger intensive tasks, since the integration of finger force capabilities and task requirements are …
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Assessment of the correlates of sociometric status in children: behavioral, cognitive, peer perception and age differences
… research focus on developing more refined and standardized procedures for measuring affective social perception skills since this appears to be a fruitful and relatively unexplored area in relation to sociometric status.
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Bimanual coordination and motor learning in children with unilateral motor disorders
… motor impairments on a functional level using standardized procedures. There is a lack of studies however looking at the specific problem of coordination of a bimanual task, especially with respect to the different underlying neuropathologies. Aims & Methods Within this thesis, kinematics of …
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The Unmet Psychosocial and Supportive Care Needs of Young Adults who have a Parent with a Non-Communicable Disease
… problem. The review was conducted using standardized procedures and guidance from the Cochrane collaboration. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 3 Qualitative methodology was used to investigate seven adolescent’s experiences of unmet psychosocial and supportive care needs in …
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Plant-insect interactions between female dogwood borer and apple
… for dogwood borer was developed, using standardized procedures at each developmental stage. These methods enabled the establishment of a laboratory colony and efficient production of synchronized cohorts of each of its lifestages throughout the year for specific experimental needs. The …
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Registered Nurse Diabetes Medication Titration at Clinic X
… objective of this project was to develop a standardized procedure that will allow registered nurses at Clinic X to titrate certain anti-diabetic medications (metformin, glipizide, and tolbutamide) by utilizing pre-determined algorithms. The author’s intervention involved surveying primary …