So far, most of this data is modest in scope (such as patients' ratings and written reviews of physicians), but the growing trend toward providers' publishing their own ratings is likely to transform health care in four important ways.
Marconi's fortunes turned last year when its new boss, Mike Parton, persuaded creditors to forgive £4 billion in debt in return for majority ownership.In both cases, however, the "buy" ratings signify scope for further cost-cutting and operational improvements, rather than confidence in the companies' long-term prospects.
But clearly, Fox wants to broaden its scope with baseball, even though ratings have been unspectacular.
Although a full analysis of the qualitative data provided to support the typicality ratings obtained is beyond the scope of the current study, some observations can be made, which may have implications for future research.
Ratings are based on the openness of a country's economy, export growth and real effective exchange rate (REER) valuation, as well as the scope a country has to weaken its currency without damaging its economy.
Ratings for the children with SLI were more similar in scope and scale to those provided by parents of typically developing children than to the ratings provided for children with ADHD.
The scope for playing games, and cherry-picking the most favourable ratings, will increase, and may even come to dominate banks' risk-management decisions.The shellgame played around CDOs should be enough to alert investors and regulators to a looming danger.
They decided they would switch from summer seasons to one-nighters, and Thames TV made Mike and Bernie (1971-72), a six-part show that reached the top 20 in the ratings, but which they thought gave them too little scope for characterisation.
Biology textbooks for these three audiences present a topic scope and sequence that correlates with the topic scope and importance ratings of the biology content specifications for the MCAT regardless of the intended audience.
We examine how several hundred firms responded to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent social rating agency, and take advantage of an exogenous shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings.
