Sentence examples for patient indicator from inspiring English sources

The primary study end point was analyzed via a mixed linear model, adjusting for period, treatment sequence (carryover), and treatment effect (fixed factors), with patient indicator as a random intercept and PR at baseline as a covariate.

Platelet inhibition at the end of treatment periods was analyzed with a similar model with period, treatment sequence (carryover), and treatment effect as fixed factors, patient indicator as random intercept, and percent inhibition at baseline as a covariate.

The age and sex of the patients, clinical diagnosis, duration of hospitalization, antibiotic information (name, dose and frequency) and the results of culture and sensitivity testing were entered into the patient indicator form (PIF) [see Additional file 1].

The variable percent adherent patient indicator (equal to 1 when the percentage of adherent patients is used as outcome variable, 0 otherwise) was significant in the model (p < 0.01), indicating that the percentage of adherent patients was not interchangeable with other adherence measures (correct dosing, taking adherence, timing adherence).

As for quality, the U.S. now ranks last among 19 industrialized countries in preventable deaths and has a dismal ranking in many other patient indicators.

Variability in what both nurses and patients experienced in hospitals was, in general, even greater within countries than between countries; however, the association between nurse and patient indicators across hospitals were quite similar.

Participants were asked to rank the importance of three types of quality indicators: patient experience indicators, clinical performance indicators, and indicators about hospital services.

By means of ranking indicators, patients indicated the importance of different patient experience indicators (CQI themes derived from the Dutch Consumer Quality Index questionnaire), clinical performance indicators, and indicators about hospital services.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQQ) developed patient safety indicator (PSI) 5, "Foreign body left during procedure," to flag accidental foreign bodies in surgical and medical procedures.

This patient safety indicator is already 3 years in use by Dutch hospitals and derived from administrative medical data.

Men ranked information about new medication (patient experience indicator) as more important than women (see Additional file 1, Table S2).