Sentence examples for interventions as a proxy from inspiring English sources

The ministry published data on individual departments' volume for common surgical interventions as a proxy for quality on the assumption that department volume was associated with experience and thereby clinical quality.

We used the percentage deviation in average television viewership (relative to the non-intervention period) as a proxy for the percentage deviation in contacts.

Productivity losses due to lost work days because of visits for diagnostic purposes and in association with surgical interventions were estimated as a proxy for indirect costs from society's perspective, based on the human capital approach.

Although several studies explored the effect of decision aid interventions on treatment decision making as a proxy for the effectiveness of the intervention, we believe that patient attitudes toward the decision making process may be a more important indicator of shared decision making effectiveness as the ultimate treatment choice may depend on several individual factors.

For example, availability and accessibility of services or interventions are often used as a proxy of health services coverage.

Following this definition, the outcomes of spine interventions are a proxy for quality of care.

We compared IP education and uniprofessional (UP) education versions of the intervention, using self-efficacy as a proxy measure of performance in practice, to look for evidence of the positive impact of IP education.

Consonant with the cohort model approach first employed in the Lancet series on maternal and child undernutrition [ 48], the LiST tool employs a similar approach and uses the effect of various maternal interventions on SGA which is considered as a proxy measure for IUGR and an indirect cause of mortality and morbidity in children [ 14].

The selection of the intervention group may therefore be regarded as a proxy to randomisation.

Three of these interventions were classified as 'coaching' interventions [ 48, 50, 59], as they tended to utilise the partner as a proxy therapist, whose role in the intervention was to assist the patient.

The number of educator calls received by participants in the telephone group was used as a proxy for intensity of the intervention.