The phrase 'hamper improvements' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something – such as an obstacle or limitation – is preventing progress, development or improvement from taking place. For example: "The complex nature of the problem hampers improvements in the overall system."
If the assessment of the HR needs was based on the actual workload, it is possible no substantial gap was determined because most of the current diagnostic and treatment tasks are carried out satisfactorily by existing staff, but an unrecognized HR gap could hamper improvement in case detection rates.
Confined spaces, substandard working conditions, high labor intensity, high heading rate, and complex field management have hampered improvements in thin-seam mining technology.
Many different scales have been used to measure eczema, making it difficult to compare trials in meta-analyses and hampering improvements in clinical practice.
However, she argued that there is "a real lack of children's rights awareness" in social work training and recruitment is hampering improvement.
Shipping eco-rating schemes fall short of best practices for design and governance, and this hampers improvement efforts.
The constant increase of cancer cell resistance to radio- and chemotherapy hampers improvement of patient survival and requires novel targeting approaches.
In some industries, although modifying the payment system can be the key to increasing industry profitability, mistrust between growers and millers can hamper such improvements.
It is demonstrated that hierarchical nanostructures can greatly enhance the performances of a wire-based supercapacitor (WS), meanwhile can also increase the WS's volume and further hamper the improvement of the WS's capacitance per unit volume.
The primary aim was to explore patients' knowledge of heart failure and their attitudes toward medical information (prognostic information in particular) and to assess different patient-related factors that might hamper the improvement of patients' knowledge.
Patients' silence about abusive events is alarming as it is not only directly harmful to patients, but a lack of patient feedback also hampers structural improvements.
