Another parent called the incident an indicator of a larger problem with Chappaqua's youth, stemming from privilege and "the lack of diversity in this community".
The results show that improved safety practices and improved profitability in industry is possible when one understands the mathematical cause and effect relationship between incidents (trailing indicators) and program interventions (inspections, training, safety meetings, and the like) designed to prevent them (leading indicators).
The patient-incident index appears to be especially promising in a quality indicator setting, since it scored highly on all tests applied in this study.
These incidents are proxy indicators of health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting, identified in the international literature and in the formative research conducted prior to the survey.
Your ability to be optimistic and to see your setbacks as isolated incidents instead of indicators of your future success is precisely what will make you succeed in the future.
We first assessed the relationship of baseline smoking status with indicators of incident diabetes and diabetes mortality (Table 2).
For analyses related to indicators of incident diabetes, we excluded individuals with prevalent diabetes at baseline, defined as self-reported history of diabetes or fasting serum glucose >125 mg/dl.
The effect of glycemic control on indicators of incident and prevalent neuropathy was modeled as a function of mean A1C level during the DCCT and during the EDIC study.
18 Data sources could include: incidents reported, patient safety indicators derived from administrative data, complaints, health and safety incidents, inquests, claims, clinical audits, routine data, observations and informal conversations with patients, families and staff.
Some quality indicators applied to incident conditions and incidence varied from 0.9% reporting stroke (cerebrovascular disease) to 6.6% reporting a new diagnosis of hypertension since the previous survey wave two years previously (table 2).
