While the enactment of a prescription drug plan by President Bush and the Republican majority is politically expedient and serves to fulfill a campaign promise, delaying implementation for several years, until 2006, does little to help Medicare recipients currently in desperate need of relief.
All we saw was a draft press release that he had his press office apparently draft that said that he had made the decision to reconsider [the rule] and was going to delay its implementation for several years while he revisited the whole idea of any regulation on coal-fired power plants.
In some centres, BPR has been implemented for several years, whereas in others implementation is in the initial phase.
Panama does not have a universal health care system, but its implementation has been under debate for several years without a conclusion.
Our short-term reduction in the all-cause IAP rate was 26% (P < 0.0001), and our long-term reduction was 61% (P < 0.0001).A multidisciplinary team, focused on evidence, patient safety, and standardization, can use a set of multifaceted interventions to sustainably improve patient outcomes for several years after implementation.
A study by the Beacon Hill Institute reported that the FairTax may have a negative effect on the well-being of mid-income earners for several years after implementation.
Advanced practice for radiation therapists has been a part of the international landscape for several years; however formal implementation into the Australian health care system is yet to happen.
UNICEF has, for several years, supported the implementation of the Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI) in Afghanistan and many activities are currently ongoing in selected locations.
(19, 20) "Real world" data suggest that the aggressive U.K. PfP initiative markedly improved control of glucose and cholesterol for several years after its implementation (21).
For several years now, FAO has assisted the implementation of UPA programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The epidemiological importance of migration from tuberculosis high to low incidence countries has been recognized for several years; the main countermeasure has been implementation of screening programs for immigrants at the time of arrival [ 16, 17].
