Sentence examples for affluent practices from inspiring English sources

At the practice level, only socio-economic status made a marginally significant contribution to explaining the variation in CVD risk, with more affluent practices having a tendency towards lower risk scores.

One study based in 1024 Scottish general practices found that when exception reporting is taken into account there was lower delivered quality of care in less affluent practices in 4 clinical indicators [ 12].

'Affluent' practices were defined as those with an IMD 2004 rank of 16242 or higher (n = 17,654; 57.2%), and 'deprived' practices as those with an IMD 2004 rank of 16241 or lower (n = 13,207; 42.8%).

Practices with a higher caseload had similar achievement of quality for many aspects of management, but practices with higher caseload achieved higher scores, and in larger practices and more affluent practices for some indicators for initial diagnosis and management including referrals for exercise testing and/or specialist assessment, an echocardiogram, CT or MRI scan.

Our findings that prevalence of cardiovascular disorders was similar in deprived and affluent practices is unexpected and, in this light, our finding that some aspects of the management of cardiovascular diseases were worse in practices in deprived areas is of concern and consistent with one other study reporting that socially deprived areas experience a lower quality of care overall[ 19].

32 The inequality gap between practices in deprived and affluent areas has been found to be diminishing over time, with the former catching up with the latter, 23 although there is evidence that the gap had been exaggerated with the introduction of the financial scheme, since more affluent practices were quicker to adapt and maximise their QOF performance.

While some market analysts might interpret these results as an indication of a slowdown, David M. Thompson, vice president of affluent practice at Phoenix, wasn't so sure.

In general, there are six "psychological needs" an adviser must meet for clients if they are to build an affluent practice.

For example, our data may suggest that people with SMI registered at a more affluent practice may be more likely to undergo regular monitoring making the diagnosis of unrelated diseases such as cancer and hypothyroidism more likely.

However, divergence between consensus recommendations and clinical practice had been reported even in affluent western practices, raising the question of whether the recommendations are overly aggressive, or whether the clinicians are too conservative in their use of chemotherapy (Lu et al, 2003).

I trained as a GP in an affluent rural practice.