Sentence examples for performance of practices from inspiring English sources

The performance of practices and individual providers are increasingly being compared using standardized performance measures.

This has important implications for the ability to manage the performance of practices, as inadequate interpersonal skills might be missed.

The first set of analyses examined whether the removal of an indicator from the incentives framework affected the subsequent mean performance of practices as measured by that indicator.

It provides support for the ability of questions of the type used in the general practice assessment questionnaire to discriminate between aspects of the performance of practices and of individual doctors within those practices.

The slightly better performance of practices serving a larger percentage of female patients might indicate that males are less receptive or cooperative in consultations, although previous work identified slightly higher levels of diabetes care for male patients.

The strong association between patient characteristics such as socio-economic status, age, and ethnicity and SF-12 physical and mental component summary scores underlines the importance of considering these factors in the management of chronically-ill patients in general practice and adjusting for them in the assessment of the performance of practices.

The RCT aims at enhancing primary care for CVRM by improving professional performance of practice nurses [ 30].

As also noted in Table  1, two non-ICU studies comprehensively detailed the process of using Delphi techniques to develop content for a fall-risk checklist [ 13] and a simulation performance checklist to evaluate the performance of practicing anesthesiologists [ 19].

The TICD-RCT aimed at improving CVRM in primary care by enhancing professional performance of practice nurses and included a random sample of general practices from several geographical areas in the Netherlands.

In the analysis of professional performance of practice nurses regression models will include six network characteristics (density, frequency of contact, homogeneity, presence of informal opinion leaders and CVRM-coordinators, and centrality) as predictors of main interest.

Main outcomes for health professionals will consist of 1) the description of social networks and 2) the hypothesized effects of several social network characteristics, controlled for possibly confounding variables, on professional performance of practice nurses and patients' health outcomes.