Sentence examples for between process of care from inspiring English sources
We have previously demonstrated an ambiguous relationship between process of care and outcomes for stroke patients [ 16].
Main outcome measure Associations between process of care (the assessments, interventions, and treatments that patients receive) and 30 day all cause mortality, adjusting for patient level characteristics.
Few previous studies focused their analysis on identifying the effect of disease severity on the relationship between process of care measures and outcome in medically treated patients.
Incomplete information on risk factors for stroke is a serious threat to the validity of the results of case-control studies investigating the relationship between process of care and health care outcome.
A few previous studies evaluated the effect of disease severity on the relationship between process of care measures and outcome for elderly pneumonia patients [ 22, 23] or patients with other medically treated diseases [ 24], with mixed results.
Evidence is still lacking and there are mixed results, but our results together with those of Lin and colleagues and Durairaj and colleagues suggest a need for stratification by disease severity when evaluating the relationship between process of care and outcome.
This could suggest that multiple improvements in, and synergy between, processes of care may have had small, incremental contributions to lowering mortality.
Since the formulation of interventions to address deficiencies in care over the weekends requires painstaking detective work to determine the causal relationships between processes of care on the weekend and mortality, we would therefore prioritise this type of challenging research activity, commencing with the elective setting.
We also determined the degree of correlation, or independence (orthogonality), between these global process-of-care indices and mortality.
This would appear to be the first formal demonstration of such a (lack-of) relationship and is consistent with the literature reviews of Thomas and Hofer [ 40] and Pitches et al [ 9], although both reviews noted considerable and possibly confounding between-study heterogeneity in recorded process-of-care and mortality risk-adjustment measures.
