This became the formulation of a mixed committee for improvement in quality of medical practice; this worked well for 3 years, and in 1993 the first Manual of Accreditation for Hospitals and Other Health Care Providers in Argentina was published [ 2, 3].
The Argentine Society of Critical Care Medicine participated actively in this mixed committee, drawing up standards for intensive care medicine and categorizing four types of unit that fit the level of institution that they belong to: resuscitation unit; polyvalent critical care unit, 1st level; polyvalent critical care unit, 2nd level; and specialized units (cardiology unit, burns unit, etc).
Besides the obvious advantage of cross-disciplinary assessment of cases, the formal mixed steering committees functioned as 'door openers' in regard to the various levels and agents of rehabilitation activities.
After serving in the Egyptian army during the first Arab-Israeli war (1948 49), he was a member of the mixed armistice committee.
Informal habits of exclusion are common even within mixed-gender executive committees, such as male-only breakfasts or smoke breaks where strategy is discussed.
She said the committee had mixed feelings about the potential for BO to be environmentally successful.
Forum for the ill-informed Commons committees have a mixed reputation.
Mr. Myers, who has little courtroom experience, received a mixed rating from the American Bar Association committee that evaluates judicial nominees.
The resentment of the bar association's special role has festered since 1987, when the association's judicial evaluation committee gave a mixed review to Judge Robert H. Bork, President Ronald Reagan's choice for the Supreme Court.
In other mixed messages, a Utah Senate committee recently approved a bill that would allow state government officials to refuse to marry same-sex couples -- as long as they gave up their authority to marry straight couples, too.
