Administrative data submitted by participant hospitals are combined into a project database, facilitating outcome comparison for in-hospital mortality, readmissions and lengths of stay across many clinical diagnoses and procedure groups.
However, all must take similar steps, traverse similar challenges, and build similar infrastructures to facilitate outcomes measurement.
One clear advantage of this approach is the attention to variables that measure a number of processes of care that facilitate outcomes.
This is not a prescriptive framework; the goal is to facilitate outcomes research that can effectively account for these varied and complex contexts.
Parental support was included in the intervention to facilitate outcomes.
In addition, group efforts involving multiple disciplines facilitate outcomes that transcend what can be accomplished in isolation and are increasingly needed to approach complex global health problems.
As technology advances, immediate access to patient data and the availability of ED scoring systems on hand-held computers will further facilitate outcome prediction.
3 Study population stability facilitates outcome ascertainment through linkage to hospital-based disease records, and helps to limit loss to follow-up in the long term.
The nonbiological factors may act directly to enhance (or inhibit) the consequences of the biological changes, indirectly to facilitate outcome of the disparity, or as a cofounding factor, driving the association between the biological factors and the disparity.
Embedding recruitment in a structure that facilitates outcome determination, utilizing comprehensive and flexible information technology, automating biospecimen processing, ensuring broad consent, and establishing essentially autonomous leadership with appropriate oversight are all critical to success.
