Sentence examples for practitioners in our sample from inspiring English sources

27 A substantial majority of doctors received sufficient scores to achieve reliable estimates of performance in communication all but two of the 105 general practitioners in our sample received at least 27 patients' communication scores, and all but 10 received 46 or more (overall mean 71 scores per doctor).

Furthermore, we do not know how well we represented QI researchers versus QI practitioners in our sample, because we only can categorize those who actually signed up to participate; however, our Phase I response rate of 77% does not suggest a high level of bias in this regard.

However, the proportion of community practitioner prescribers in our sample is lower than expected and is probably due to shortfalls in data provided by PCTs.

Youth who were diagnosed with LD by schools had lower anxiety scores than youth who were diagnosed by private practitioners and clinics in our sample.

It is possible that insufficient time has elapsed for the impact of such a task-shifting strategy to affect practitioner-to-population ratios in our sample.

In addition, most of the female physicians in our sample were general practitioners (Table 2).

The sample is also representative in terms of income: the average income of private medical practitioners (net of charges and social security contributions) in our sample is 71,364 Euros, while the average is 71,690 Euros for all French GPs [ 19].

In other medico-legal settings, it may not be possible for practitioners to accrue the large numbers of events that some doctors in our sample did.

It is disconcerting that only 7% of the CAM users in our sample reported being advised on CAM modalities by their "health practitioner", and the disclosure rate of CAM use to the physician was found to be low (13%).

Since approximately 75% of the patients in our sample were referred from primary care, this group should represent patients which General Practitioners find difficult to diagnose and for whom use of a clinical diagnostic protocol would be beneficial.

In our sample of a third of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, across cadres, the eye health practitioner workforce appears to be growing in more countries than it is shrinking.