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[ 55] This study identified a prescribing change benchmark of 2% as the minimum target, which reflects the average rate of prescribing change in physician practice overall.
Additional file 1: Figure S1 depicts the results of the 50 expression profiles obtained with STEM, at 1.5 fold change benchmark value relative to sham controls.
In this context, skills shortages in hospitals where systems were deployed were particularly frequently mentioned, including limited expertise in business change, benchmarking, product testing, contracting, project management and service improvement.
Quality indicators should yield positive assessment on a range of attributes such as clarity, feasibility, reliability, validity and transparency and in order to demonstrate sensitivity to change, benchmarking data are required so that health care providers can assess and compare their own quality of care with others [ 23, 25].
Mr. Edwards said he would change the benchmarks for progress in the schools to put greater emphasis on students as they move grade to grade, rather than the current law's snapshot of a class as a whole.
The way around this sticky issue is for the trustees to change the benchmarks frequently.
Trustees of public pension funds routinely change performance benchmarks to muddle the subpar returns in the funds they oversee.
The trustees routinely change their benchmarks and set the hurdle low in order to obscure mediocre performance.
Sylvain de Ruijter, head of core fixed income investments at ING Investment Management, said many managers were seeking greater freedoms to change their benchmarks to insulate passive funds from sudden ratings actions which could strip millions of euros off the value of their client's investments.
