The LSCTC comprised a 14-item programme delivered by multidisciplinary teams (MDT) during the inpatient stay in stroke units (SUs).
The approach of proposing an annual per capita budget changed the conventional line-item programme budgeting system by basing negotiations between the Bureau of Budget, the NHSO and other stakeholders on evidence of service utilization and unit costs.
Similar to a test being more than a random sample of items, a programme of assessment should be more than a random selection of instruments.
Just as a test is not simply a random sample of items; a programme of assessment is more than a random set of instruments.
The specific funds for particular programmes of various government ministries had always played a more important role than other sources of funds in the prevention and control of NCDs in China (items E1 E4), which indicates a programme-based financing mechanism.
It may be done in a single item, a single programme, a series of programmes or over the course of the campaign as a whole.
The four-page advice report contained detailed advice on quitting tailored to 25 items from the programme's 30-item questionnaire including: smoking habits and history; motivation and determination to quit; reasons for quitting; dependence; self-image; pros and cons of quitting; perceived difficult situations; children; living with other smokers; social support; and current health problems.
Private investigators, and on occasion other third parties, are used for individual items or programmes where they can offer specialist skills or contacts or, where it is more cost-effective to employ a specialist sub-contractor, e.g. for surveillance purposes to confirm an individual's whereabouts.
One item assessed overall programme appreciation by asking the students to rate the programme on a scale of 1 to 10.
Normally, Bolton versus Blackburn - however parlous the two clubs' league positions - would not be the first item on the programme's schedule.
Nor did it point out that, at that first performance, Concerto for Group … was only one item on the programme, which also included the Sixth Symphony by the evening's conductor, Malcolm Arnold, himself a master of crossover.
