Sentence examples for measures of practices from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Secondary analysis of data from 239 general practices, collected in practice visits between 2003 to 2006 in the Netherlands using a comprehensive set of measures of practice management.

Two questions which triggered payments to general practitioners were reliable measures of practice performance, with average practice-level reliability coefficients of 93.2% and 95.0%.

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

Data from structured questionnaires were used to construct an overall measure and six domain measures of practice organisation based on 39 items.