Sentence examples for proxy quality from inspiring English sources

Similarly, some of the differences in proxy quality indicators are likely to be an inevitable function of care type.

Logistic regression models were created where maternal ethnicity, age, household structure and income, education, area deprivation and type of child care predicted proxy quality indicators (see Table 4).

Several child care proxy quality indicators were lower for children of Māori, Pacific and Asian mothers compared with children of European mothers, and for children living in higher deprivation areas.

Seventy-three famembersmbers of these people with dementia provided proxy quality of life ratings.

Appropriate blinding of study participants and all key study personnel is unlikely to be accomplished for most PT trials; however, blinding of outcome assessment has been commonly used as a proxy quality measure without validation.

Family carers were eligible to provide proxy quality of life ratings if they visited their relatives at least weekly; 76 family members met this criterion and 73 of these agreed to provide ratings.

Objective To validate the Otitis Media-6 (OM-6), a parent-proxy quality-of-life (QOL) questionnaire for infants/young children with OM, against other previously validated generic QOL questionnaires.

Quality improvement initiatives using patient satisfaction as a proxy for quality of care should account for patients' baseline depression as a potential confounder especially in this age group.

Patient satisfaction ratings are increasingly being used in health care as a proxy for quality and are becoming the focal point for several quality improvement initiatives.

Antitrust authorities and policy-makers usually treat price as a proxy for quality and consumer welfare, in part because health care quality is difficult to observe.

Kawaguchi (2008) used the level of nurse staffing as a proxy of quality care, though still failed to use a direct measure of quality of care.