Sentence examples for benchmarks for patients from inspiring English sources
Dr. Berry notes that fitness varies greatly with age and sex, and that mile-time estimates are just easy benchmarks for patients and doctors to begin a discussion about fitness.
Nancy's interests in health care research began at Stanford Hospital and Clinics where she worked under hospital administration to develop clinical and service performance programs and to establish hospital vs. national benchmarks for patient care.
When using ancillary measures as benchmarks for patient improvement, the UFS-QOL was able to discriminate among levels of change in patient-reported overall treatment effect and satisfaction.
The objective of this study was to validate the APACHE IV benchmark for patients admitted with severe sepsis and septic shock to the ICU and to compare the performance of the APACHE IV system with APACHE II.
Liver Transplantation (LT) is the only therapy that simultaneously cures the tumour and the underlying liver disease and the MILAN Criteria remains the benchmark for patient selection.
A significant reduction of retinal thickness from baseline to 2 years was noted in the laser treatment group(139 ± 148 μm), compared with 1 mg (86 ± 167 μm, p < 0.001) and 4 mg (77 ± 160 μm, p < 0.001) IVTA groups, suggesting that laser still remains the benchmark treatment for patients with DME [ 106].
The pediatric registration system is modeled after the surgical adverse event registration system and is intended to be used by all pediatricians in the Netherlands, so it can serve as a benchmarking tool for patient safety management.
Using funnel plots, we identified ten hospitals with a performance significantly poorer than the regional benchmark for STEMI patients.
The model that predicts ICU stay remaining after day 5, however, provides additional information for benchmarking resource use for patients with prolonged ICU stays.
METHODS: One hundred thirty-one medical records of patients seen at the Duke Eye Center from January 1998 to July 2008 were reviewed relative to both the dry eye preferred practice patterns benchmarks for 1998 (all patients) and 2003 (for those seen between 2004 and 2008).
