The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Programm (ACS NSQIP) will soon be reporting procedure-specific outcomes, and hopes to reduce the burden of data collection by collecting fewer variables.
Else, it will be possible to minimize the burden of data collection further compared with existing data collection protocols.
The burden of data collection was minimised by collecting data for all 4 QIs from a single small sample of medical records and by restricting the number of items for the QI relative to the completeness of the medical record.
As noted above, smartphones are equipped with passive data collection capabilities that can substantially diminish the burden of data collection, provide virtually continuous monitoring and increase the amount and type of information available to generate feedback.
Our data suggest that simple wood stoves like rocket mud stoves could ease the burden of fuelwood collection for rural households, and potentially address social and local environmental consequences of fuelwood collection.
Our study hypothesis was that expanding the SAPS II by adding routinely collected variables would improve mortality prediction without increasing the burden of data collection, thus producing a tool suitable for ICU benchmarking.
To reduce the burden of data collection for the health care professionals, we will ask them to collect only the data they need for the risk estimations.
This research develops and tests the construct validity of a virtual audit tool of the street environment for route choice analysis of pedestrians with an aim to ease the burden of data collection process, while maintaining the quality of data.
The Wheatons have decided it would be easier to close their doors rather than deal with a new tax system.The changes, which will be introduced on July 1st, shift the burden of tax collection from income to spending by introducing a goods and services tax on almost everything Australians buy and sell.
On a broader scale, waste segregation reduces the burden of waste collection and disposal, minimizing loads of waste that need to be transported to dump sites.
