However, our tool addressed one precise issue, the identification of patients who will be discharged to a PAC facility, and therefore at risk of discharge delays, while other tools predicted less focused or combined outcomes, such as non-medical hospital days [ 7, 15], post-discharge problems [ 5], or the use of post-discharge medical services including formal home care [ 4].
23 We developed our eligibility criteria from our research questions: (1) What is the effectiveness of chronic disease management (CDM) tools addressing one or more high-burden chronic diseases affecting people aged≥ 65 years?
Awareness about lifestyle issues might have been influenced by participation in the study, but most of the commitment and activities described are not connected to the CLT, which is merely seen as a complement or as one tool among others used to address lifestyle issues.
The core elements of allied health research quality (specific diagnosis criteria, intervention descriptions, nature of patient contact and appropriate outcome measures) were not addressed in any one tool sourced for this evaluation.
One tool the government could use to address concerns about high frequency trading is a financial transactions tax.
One tool used in the new lease to address the issue of clashes between shareholders, he said, is the inclusion of a binding arbitration provision for resolving the disputes.
By understanding the many drivers behind health-related decisions, behavioral economics is one tool that can help us better address the demand-side of the PMTCT equation (i.e., increase the number of mothers who receive HIV testing, who adhere to medication recommendations and who return for visits).
Several tools address more than one category of EBP assessment in a single instrument.
One tool, called an interleaved tag cloud, lets users compare side by side the relative frequencies of the words in two passages — for instance, President Bush's State of the Union addresses in 2002 and 2003.
