Sentence examples for attributable to practice from inspiring English sources

In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, Dartmouth researchers observed that when they revised their analysis to include wage levels, New York City's Medicare spending dropped 30percentt — all but an admission that Dartmouth data is unreliable for capturing spending differences attributable to practice patterns and resource use.

Each of these authors concluded that differences in outcome may be partly attributable to practice variation.

However, cognition-enhancing effects in schizophrenia may at least in part be attributable to practice effects [ 13, 14].

2 However, our aim was not to evaluate the degree of variation in an outcome that was attributable to practice level variation, 14 as this was not an issue of interest in our analyses; rather, we aimed to evaluate the effects of sociodemographic covariates after adjusting for practice level variables and accounting for the multilevel nature of the data.

*Lower confidence limit restricted to 0. With regard to our first hypothesis (that more variation in practice outcomes would occur at practice level than at doctor level), table 3 shows that for overall satisfaction and communication a very small proportion of the variation occurs at practice level, but for access and wait for appointment a larger proportion is attributable to practices.

Asthma7 was withdrawn in the light of new evidence on the appropriateness of immunising patients with asthma, 10 11 so any relative decline in immunisation rates may be attributable to practices responding to new evidence rather than or in addition to the withdrawal of financial incentives.

Tony Farthing, head of the bureau's New York regional office, said that the late surges found in the districts cited by Mr. Miller -- Newark was also among them -- were attributable to his practice of assigning only the best enumerators to those offices to complete the count.

Consequently, assessing the risk for infection attributable to this practice was not possible.

If caesarean sections are performed more commonly in the presence of relative indications, the difference may be attributable to medical practice.

This renewed interest has resulted in an accelerated expansion of a range of initiatives within and outside the nursing profession to make explicit those aspects of care outcomes directly attributable to nursing practice.

Among persons who prepared sick or dead poultry for consumption, the proportion of H5N1 cases attributable to this practice (AR%) is estimated in this study to be 89% ([ 8.99 – 1)/8.99] × 100).