Are these measureable improvements due, at least in part, to initiatives related to performance measurement, quality assessment, and quality improvement?
Furthermore it is of interest to know whether there has been a measureable improvement in the quality of reporting.
Wasif et al. comment that quality measures must 1) be acceptable to various stakeholders; 2) include measureable elements; and 3) impact outcomes [ 2].
The delamination factor Fd, developed by Chen (International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 37 (1997) 1097) has been established, being a straightforward measureable variable representing the bore quality.
Our study population comprised 452 patients, of whom 392 (87%) had adequate echocardiographic image quality to measure longitudinal strain and 338 (75%) had a measureable E/e′ (Fig. 1).
Policy experiments are expected, including trials to determine whether or not a variety of incentive schemes, evaluated in separate arms over several years, have measureable effects on rural recruitment and retention, the quality of health care, and on health outcomes.
Whilst quality systems often operate according to that which is measureable, the difficulty of this approach is that the intangible, relational and tacit elements of care become less visible within health systems.
It is imperative that countries commit to specific, measureable outcomes, because, in the words of Hillary Clinton: "What gets measured gets done".
Enabling the paradigm of quality by design requires the ability to quantitatively correlate material properties and process variables to measureable product performance attributes.
However, even though the estimated effects may be similar, the change in air quality concentrations is much larger during forest fire episodes compared with non forest fire episodes, hence resulting in a measureable excess in OHCAs during relatively short smoke episodes.
Think network television is washed up, overwhelmed by targeted and measureable ads on the Web?
