We controlled for time of observation because it showed in two out of three workload dimensions meaningful associations with pediatricians' workload ratings (cf. to Table 2).
If employing authorities…wish to acquire meaningful information on Radiology department workload or individual Radiologist workload, this should be done through the medium of an agreed, robust system of measuring the relative values of different studies, procedures and activities, which is adaptable to new professional and technical developments in the future".
Comments made by providers and supervisors at SBM-R intervention sites indicate that PMTCT lay workers made a meaningful contribution to the facility's workload.
However, women's perceptions of the attendance of midwives are more meaningful than the objective measurements of attendance or workload.
The relationship between leaner hospital nurse staffing ratios and higher likelihood of readmission may be explained by nurses having less time to engage in meaningful teaching and discharge preparation due to higher workloads.
The use of such methods to reduce excessive physical workload would likely make interventions more specific and meaningful for workers both individually and in work groups.
Specifically, the measures themselves may impact workload; the measures were either too far apart to be meaningful, or so close in timing as to seriously disrupt the tasks being measured.
Our findings suggest that restrictions around research funding, funding mechanisms for paying people for their time and endeavour, together with existing workload time pressures were among some of the barriers to meaningful PI identified by many panellists.
Volunteers were also found to be engaging in meaningful projects to share their skills with local workers and help alleviate their workload, while simultaneously fostering a new spirit of altruism within the communities they worked in.
Obviously, the quality of benchmarking is dependent upon careful selection of meaningful outcome quality indicators, avoidance of missing data by automated documentation without excess workload to healthcare providers, and--most important--careful interpretation of gathered results.
