Sentence examples for lagged patient from inspiring English sources

In models that excluded all hospital characteristics, lagged patient flow variables, and county level variables, the estimated opt-out coefficients were negative, and statistically significant (p < 0.05) when the dependent variable was the number of surgical discharges.

In the SASD, we estimate separate models by freestanding status, a model focusing on the volume of specific outpatient procedures likely to require general anesthesia, and a model excluding the lagged patient flow variables.

Through and at three months after the CBT program, CR patients demonstrated robust and continued improvement in symptomatology and functioning, while CS patients lagged behind CR patients, because they scored worse at the end of acute phase treatment than CR patients but tended to catch up with them at three-month follow-up.

The need to evaluate paid hospital claims and all claims from the year before the index hospitalization results in significant time lags between patient care and reported measure rates.

The detection and identification of microorganisms based on traditional culture-based methods make time-critical decision-making rather difficult because of the significant time lags between patient sampling and results.

These findings suggest that, despite the nearly 4-month time lag, patients were able to recall therapy time frames with excellent accuracy.

Giving and receiving support were associated with one's own higher RS for both patients and spouses in concurrent models, and for patients in lagged models.

In addition, many privately run Medicare plans, known as Medicare H.M.O.'s, withdrew from many areas of the country when government payments lagged, forcing millions of patients to scramble to obtain new coverage.

Timeliness of registration and follow-up of patients still lagged behind North American and northern European countries.

Training of broader segments of the medical care community for the specialized considerations of autistic patients has lagged behind the epidemic itself.

Unfortunately, buoyed by these successes, we have lagged behind in helping patients and their families to decide how our therapeutic tools should be used in the context of individual and societal goals, values, and beliefs.