Actual treatment would have been a more proximal indicator for improvement in child health, but this was not possible because of differences between the 2 surveys.
In our study, administration of AqE-TFG caused a significant reduction in serum lipids (TC, TGs, LDL-C, and VLDL-C), cardiac risk indexes (AI and CRI), and apo-B levels which may be considered as a better indicator for improvement in risk of coronary heart disease.
To work out a system of indicators for improvement of primary care prescription, by incorporating the values and views of the professionals issuing prescriptions.
In this study, we implement KIDMAP to summarize patients' perception about each individual hospital's performances, distribute KIDMAP reports to hospital staff through the Internet, so that they can easily recognize key indicators for improvement.
33 41 This study shows their perceived value and feasibility may vary by prescribing topic, 34 42 and any research or NHS use of prescribing indicators for improvement would therefore benefit from piloting and evaluation.
The ratio of energy to exergy in a substance can be considered as an indicator for the improvement of the energy efficiency of large scale energy systems.
As indicator for the improvement from the null model to the two-level model, we calculated McFadden's (1973) adjusted R-squared (= 1−[−2LL2-level model/−2LLnull model] = 1−[9,827.192−10,039.848]) and found an error reduction of only 2.1percentt, but which remains significant by analysis of deviance (χ2-test).
The MPR is used as an indicator for adherence improvement programs [ 21, 22].
Likelihood of use : How likely is it that you would use, or encourage the use of, this indicator for quality improvement in your centre?
2 Improving breastfeeding rates in the UK has been a key focus of successive governments over the last decade, 13 14 with the recent public health outcomes framework for England identifying breastfeeding as a key indicator for health improvement.
The K-TEA is an individually administered measure of the school achievement of children and adolescents in grades 1 through 12. Age equivalents were used for this study, as they provided a more appropriate indicator of improvement for children with disabilities.
