The DMFT and CPITN indices, which were used as the gold standard, are the preferred and recommended indicators as recommended by the WHO for the assessment of dental and periodontal health status in oral health surveys [ 13].
By identifying their limitations and by examining them in light of criteria for good indicators as recommended by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelOECDnt (OECD) and International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), we contribute to the discussion on the value and validity of indicators, indices and frameworks.
Indicators as recommended by national guidelines for HIV testing, except *.
This staff had been trained to clean and sterilize liposuction equipment, but no written procedures existed for processing reusable liposuction equipment, no logs were kept of autoclave use for sterilization, and preventive maintenance checks and verification of sterility on the autoclave by using biological indicators as recommended by the manufacturer were not performed.
To assess the effect of noise on hypertension, we used LAeq,T as indicators of exposure as recommended by the WHO (1999).
This trial includes a combination of both process indicators and outcome measures as recommended by a number of authors [ 57, 58, 62], The process evaluation component will provide detailed information on how the intervention was delivered and received, which will allow for increased generalisability of results, whilst also ensuring quality through the assessment of treatment fidelity.
Connecticut uses enterococcus bacteria as its indicator in monitoring conditions, as recommended by the E.P.A.; New Jersey and New York use fecal coliform bacteria.
Testing of isolates for susceptibility to isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, and streptomycin was performed by using the standard Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube manual system, as recommended by the manufacturer (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD).
The decompositions in the first two columns are based on using coefficients from the male regressions as the reference; while those in the last two columns are based on using coefficients from a pooled regression over males and females in the sample, and including a group indicator as an additional variable, as recommended by Jann (2008).
Other indicators of quality in transitional care, as recommended by the Institute of Medicine [ 4], Department of Health [ 8], and Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Healthcare [ 6], have not been a consistent outcome focus, suggesting gaps in understanding about timeliness, equity, family/carer centred care and symptom management for older people [ 10, 27].
23 Other indicators of infant and young child practices were constructed as recommended by WHO.
