Sentence examples for measure utilisation from inspiring English sources

Objective 1: To measure utilisation of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies during smoker pregnancies, the period of pregnancy will be estimated, with the first day of pregnancy equalling the baby's date of birth gestational age (days) +14 days.

Much of the evidence on whether access to healthcare in the UK is equitable has relied on measuring utilisation of health services.

Indexes were also excluded if they were used for funding requirements, measured utilisation of services and only used a single variable such as socioeconomic deprivation [ 18- 21].

While a clinical trial comparing No-ART to ART would be the gold standard for measuring utilisation, obvious ethical limitations imply that the before and after study design is one of the only possible choices in this context.

While the original intention behind DRGs was to develop a tool to measure resource utilisation, DRGs soon became the foundation for a number of applications [2].

Therefore, we relied on a measure of utilisation as a proxy for access to PCP.

2. Health utility will be measured at baseline, 6 and 12 months using the EQ-5D [ 28]. 3. Service Use Questionnaire will be used to measure service utilisation at baseline, 6 and 12 months.

9 Our primary aim is to measure healthcare utilisation; therefore, our primary focus is to estimate asthma incident spells that have generated a contact with primary care (see description for England below); second, where possible, we will also estimate the incidence of first occurrence of asthma (incident cases; see description for Scotland and Wales below).

Key sources of routine data relevant to the outcomes commissioners hoped to achieve with their investments were the Hospital Episode Statistics HESS) for measuring hospital utilisation rates and the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) for measuring quality in primary care.

Secondary outcome measures include; Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test AUDITT) score, quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption, health-related quality of life measures, service utilisation, and patient experience.

To measure the utilisations of tracks on the metro line it is essential that the duration be 24 h as freight trains may be implemented onto the system over 24 h, the start time of each day is not as important so midnight was chosen.