In the United Kingdom, policy makers and cancer charities often use a binary measure of promptness of cancer diagnosis comprising one or two (compared with three or more) consultations, for example, in public reporting of NHS patient experience surveys (Department of Health, 2012).
The number of consultations with a general practitioner before hospital referral is increasingly being used as a measure of the promptness of cancer diagnosis (Pancreatic Cancer UK, 2011; Rarer Cancer Foundation, 2011; Rubin et al, 2011; The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, 2011; Anonymous, 2012; Lyratzopoulos et al, 2012; Teenage Cancer Trust, 2012).
On such measures as promptness of service and patient choice, which the WHO ranking exercise calls "responsiveness", America comes out top.
This holds true even when something objective is measured like promptness of feedback.
It's worth noting that the concept of "promptness" back then was quite different from what it is now.
For $7.95, for instance, you can send a person who is always late a letter about the virtues of promptness and a wristwatch.
With musicians from another culture, perhaps this breach of the sanctity of promptness and this seeming irreverence toward the seriousness of rehearsal would be considered a great crime.
On their first date, Patty does not seem impressed with Skinner until he yells at his former student for his lack of promptness.
This has raised people's and clinicians' awareness to the importance of promptness in notifying suspected cases and timely transportation of stool specimens to the National Poliovirus Laboratory in Baghdad, or alternatively having more than one laboratory for poliovirus detection in the country, all of which are very useful measures to increase the surveillance performance in the country.
Next, we compared the 493 falls detected from incident reports and the 57 falls detected from image order entries in terms of promptness to detect events and seriousness of the detected events.
