A coalition of big employers -- including General Motors, General Electric and the Pacific Business Group on Health -- plans to press hospitals and health plans to show measurable advances.
"We have to aim for measurable advances and not be satisfied merely to report that we met and adopted good resolutions," said Mr. Mbeki, who will become the first chairman of the new African Union.
A bipartisan group in the Senate is working to write legislation that includes a "trigger," which would make the path to citizenship for more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country contingent on measurable advances in security at the borders.
Larry Norton, the foundation's scientific director and the deputy physician in chief for breast cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said the grants had led to many measurable advances in cancer treatment.
Our students translate discovery into meaningful and measurable advances in knowledge, new technologies and deep scholarship as they prepare for careers as leaders in academia, industry, government and non-profit organizations.
The overarching science goal of the proposed category 2 research is to improve our understanding of orographic precipitation regimes and their relationship to hydrologic extremes leading to measurable advances in satellite remote-sensing of precipitation in mountainous regions.
"Integration" is an overused buzzword but the fact that investigators in different disciplines are talking to one another, and actually making use of other kinds of data, is leading to measurable advances.
Improvements in CDS development will be essential to achieving measurable advances in clinical outcomes in scenarios where health care providers are faced with increasing numbers of clinical variables.
As a result, we look forward to seeing measurable advances in the representation of racial, ethnic, and other disadvantaged individuals in the scientific workforce.
Patients with histologically proven, measurable, advanced adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum, with no potentially resectable metastases, were eligible for inclusion in the study.
It includes special reference to how the Convention has supported substantial and measurable advances in child survival and development, raised awareness of and expanded solutions to child protection risks and promoted child participation as a fundamental right of children.
