Because of the importance of research [my emphasis] in improving the services that veterans receive, GAO was asked to report on VA's funding of PTSD research, and its processes for funding PTSD research proposals, reviewing and incorporating research outcomes into clinical practice guidelines...and determining which PTSD services are required to be made available at VA facilities.
The 27% of missed presentations identified in primary care supports emphasis on improving diagnosis in this setting [ 22].
Later, policing research in the Home Office emerged actively again but largely with an emphasis on improving confidence in the police, through 'reassurance' and neighbourhood policing for instance.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise in low- and middle-income countries and is proving difficult to combat due to the emphasis on improving outcomes in maternal and child health and infectious diseases against a backdrop of severe human resource and infrastructure constraints.
The emphasis on improving recovery in tennis athletes has gained more research interest over the past decade.
Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, said a trial closing would fit in with the city's emphasis on improving safety and quality of life.
The programme will strengthen and increase the scope of multidisciplinary programmatic interventions in six Governorates with emphasis on improving the conditions of at least 600,000 children in targeted districts and supporting a nationwide measles campaign seeking to vaccinate more than 1 million children.
Despite his emphasis on improving patient safety in the NHS, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, has rejected calls for minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.
In parallel with the improvements in survival, there has been a greater emphasis on improving the quality of life of patients (Brown et al, 2000).
But that same evaluation suggested that Turnaround needed to put more emphasis on improving the academic environment in the classroom.
Secretary Richardson has had the department put special emphasis on improving its oversight, but in January of this year a report by its own inspector general complained that at Hanford, where BNFL has been selected for the largest environmental cleanup in the country, the department lacked the personnel, plans and other management tools needed to oversee the project.
