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.
Surgeons and their teams have to continuously winnow through a clutter of images, vital signs data, and other patient indicators on a number of displays and 2D flat screens scattered across the operating room (OR).
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.
Hypothesis 4: There are dual reciprocal causal relationships between patient empowerment indicators, patient outcomes and clinical outcomes.
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 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 DFT and DS were considered to be simple, patient-centred indicators of patients' daily functioning and their emotional distress.
Lung CD4 counts have not been evaluated in asymptomatic HIV-1 patients as indicators of disease severity.
