Sentence examples for measures of practice from inspiring English sources

The lack of positive association between quality measurement from the patients' perspective and other quality measures of practice performance may be due to different underlying theoretical constructs of various instruments being used to assess patient perspectives [ 42, 49].

The model specification in column 2 adds measures of practice size as covariate adjusters, column 3 also includes practice payer mix variables, and column 4 adds the post-pre change in levels of county-level practice area characteristics.

For each indicator, we calculated two measures of practice performance.

Self-report may not be consistent with more objective measures of practice.

If these measures are associated more generally with other measures of practice performance, interventions and education could be more targeted.

For this study we selected five measures of practice performance as outcomes and six measures of GP workload and job stress as predictors.

Our analysis is based on two data sources: i) the General Practitioners Worklife Survey GP WLSLS); and ii) the General Medical Services GMS Statistics Databaseses to which we link geodata and measures of practices' quality.

To validate the meaningfulness of the QIs the researchers [ 31] examined the strength of the relationship between the QIs and measures of practices, processes structures and outcomes, which, in theory, were predictors of high performance on specific QIs.

LISI is a direct measure of practice list deprivation derived from prescription data.

Any measure of practice would have been more conservative than where he was before.

Observation over a longer period may provide a more robust measure of practice implementation.