Workload implications of implementing the indicator Potential barriers to the implementation of the indicators Unintended consequences to the implementation of the indicator: these can be positive or negative in nature (i.e. disruption to clinical or organisational workflow, 'spillovers' that may be negative (diversion of effort) or positive (encouraging general quality improvement).
where is the Heaviside function (implementing the indicator function) and the second argument of indicates the time-discretized version of the spike train.
An indicator could be important for accurately measuring pain but not useful because of the difficulties in practically implementing the indicator to assess pain in clinical practice.
Haymarket Media Group will implement the indicators on three brands by year-end, and several more outlets will begin to display the indicators over the next six months.
The next phase of the project (begun in November 2005) was to implement the indicators in the European Region.
In light of these results, efforts to implement the indicator-set in a continuous quality improvement program may then be limited to the more prevalent indicators.
Only if future research in a larger sample confirms the discriminative power of the indicators can they be recommended for comparative information or benchmarking [ 10] while benchmarking itself can only be made possible by implementing the quality indicator set on a large scale in Flanders.
In comparing the readiness of providers to implement the quality indicators, 66%% of generalists showed a positive perception for appropriateness of the introduction performance measurements, compared to 83%% of allied health professionals (Table 2).
To implement the multiple indicator method, anchor points, which provided details on prevalence at two locations, would be required and again these data were not available.
We are currently implementing these indicators in a telemedicine project, supported by the French National Authority for Health (FNAH), which aimed at monitoring young diabetic patients in real-time, and at alerting their non-adherent behavior to their physicians.
