To identify elements of endorsed definitions of equity in healthcare and classify domains of these definitions so that policy makers, managers, clinicians, and politicians can form an operational definition of equity that reflects the values and preferences of the society they serve.
The CVI results showed that all elements were endorsed by the required number of SMEs or more.
I-CVI and ADM results for other individual elements (e.g., title, administration instructions, scoring instructions, record form) of the IDUQOL measure and manual are presented in Table 4. I-CVI results showed that all individual elements were endorsed by a minimum of five SMEs.
On most cable shows the Los Angeles evening talker would have been in his element, lustily endorsing George W. Bush's shameless speech before the Israeli Knesset in which he compared those who would negotiate with terrorists to Hitler appeasers.
On Wednesday, Mr. Bush endorsed several elements of a gun control plan outlined by Governor Pataki this week, including requiring so-called ballistic fingerprinting to make guns easier to trace.
At the same time, Mr. Reid's gambit puts pressure on Republicans to back elements they had already endorsed as part of the broader package, rolled out by top Democrats and Republicans on the Finance Committee, a note the White House sounded Friday.
"Certain elements of the proposal endorsed by the 2005 Republican Governors were very far-reaching and would not have been approved under the Department's proposed waivers," health secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote in a Wednesday letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who called the waiver announcement a "power grab" even though Utah was among the states requesting it.
Elements that were not endorsed by a minimum of five SMEs were examined further to determine if appropriate revisions could be made.
Shortly before he became king, Abdullah endorsed an element of choice in local elections, but the councils that resulted have proved feeble, and backward-looking Islamists have emerged as the loudest voices within them.
Military officers want such transitions to be determined by conditions on the ground, not by a calendar.Another element, expected to be endorsed in London, is a more active and better-financed programme to "reintegrate" low- and medium-level Taliban fighters, including the offer of jobs for defectors and the promise of protection not just from the Taliban but from American-led special forces.
† Not an evidence-based element of care, but endorsed in prevailing clinical practice guidelines.
