It is misleading and unrealistic to expect absolute proof of causation but it is clear that appropriate codes, properly implemented, are associated with a wide variety of favourable outcomes.
The earliest stone tools, found on ancient river terraces, date back more than 250,000 years, and later stone implements are associated with evidence of Homo sapiens from perhaps as long ago as 100,000 years.
The current analysis indicates the change was very likely to have occurred at or about the time SRTS interventions were implemented, and was associated with meaningful, though in this analysis not statistically significant, decreases in risk.
The TGC protocol that was implemented was not associated with increased risk of hypokalemia.
In conclusion, our study shows that the TGC protocol that was implemented was not associated with increased risk of serum-potassium-related events.
The CD4 nurse intervention, when implemented correctly, was associated with a more rational use of higher-level clinical providers, which may improve overall clinic flow and efficient use of the limited supply of human resources.
In non-ST-segment-elevation AMI, fully implemented EHR use was associated with lower risk of major bleeding (adjusted odds ratio, 0.78 [confidence interval, 0.67-0.91]) and mortality (adjusted odds ratio, 0.82 [confidence interval, 0.69-0.97]) compared with no EHR.
The community recruitment strategy utilized in the Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia sites, based on a model developed in Rwanda [2] and previously implemented in Lusaka, Zambia[21], was associated with high rates of enrollment despite relatively lower national levels of counseling and testing in Zambia.
Different combinations of screening and isolation measures can be implemented without being associated with higher IDs of ICU-acquired MRSA cases.
Preliminary results from Jinja City indicate that the malaria control strategies implemented have been associated with reductions in both the prevalence of infection (from 9.8%to6.7.7%) and the EIR (from 4.0 to 1.8 PPY) and thus suggest that those interventions have been effective.
