Practice-level factors that distinguished practices with joint influenza-PPV SOPs included perceived practice openness to change, strong practice teamwork, access to an electronic medical record, presence of an immunization champion in the practice, and access to nurse/physician assistant staff as opposed to medical assistants alone.
The skewness observed in responses to a number of items are common in patient reports and evaluations of health care [ 35] and do not necessarily limit the ability to reliably distinguish practices and patient subgroups with sufficient sample sizes [ 36].
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that impede or promote consistent use of SOPs for adult vaccinations and to examine factors that distinguish practices that consistently use SOPs for both influenza vaccine and PPV, practices that use SOPs for influenza vaccine alone, and practices that have no SOPs for either vaccine.
Re "Despite Shared Faith, Catholic Voters Haven't Been Thronging to Santorum" (news article, March 27): American Catholics can be distinguished as practicing or nonpracticing, usual distinctions including weekly attendance at Mass and differing attitudes toward abortion.
Citing Voight for his Distinguished Practice Award, colleague Richard Gray names him among his "profession's brightest and productive members".
For "his research, teaching and consulting work", the Engineering Geology Division of the Geological Society of America presented him with their 2010 Distinguished Practice Award.
Distinguished during practice by her long brown hair and diamond earrings, Knight, 25, practiced puck handling with Ducks forward Emerson Etem and joined the team in rushes toward the net, slapping shots at Ducks goalie John Gibson and spending time in conversation with several Ducks.
Distinguished physician and practicing psychiatrist for over 50 years.
Distinguished Professor, Practice of Diplomacy, and past Dean, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; and past President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The word "Mormon" is often associated with polygamy (or plural marriage), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890 and discontinued over the next 15 years.
