Sentence examples for practices as a proxy from inspiring English sources

The majority of the indicators developed involved risk assessment of farm management practices, as a proxy (surrogate) means to assess environmental state.

We therefore stratified the randomisation procedure by experimental site, median distance from practice to hospital, and median number of partners in practices as a proxy for practice list size.

Our investigation utilised years of training and/or practice as a proxy for surgical experience, rather than number of cases performed.

Although the literature supports Insightful Practice as a proxy measure for successful performance improvement, [ 7, 17– 19] we were unable to test construct validity within this study.

It is worth investigating these findings further, because spatial variation and ethnicity may be indicative of an association of place of residence with FGM practice as a proxy for social norms.

However one simulation study [ 12] has shown that X + can be used in practice as a proxy for ordering persons with respect to their latent values without risk of many serious errors.

9 In addition, although the literature supports insightful practice as a proxy measure for successful performance improvement, 11 14 the construct validity of this was not possible to test within this study.

Census data based on the home address of all patients registered at a general practice are not available in England, so we used the super output area in which a general practice was located as a proxy for the registered population at each practice.

General practice postcodes were used as a proxy for the postcodes of registered patients at each practice.

It is relatively common for practice postcodes to be used as a proxy for patient postcodes; however, when used to estimate deprivation this has been found to underestimate relationships between deprivation and health outcomes.

3 Although ideally identified with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), adiposity is usually assessed in clinical practice using body mass index (BMI) as a proxy.