Sentence examples for service experiment from inspiring English sources
In its initial stage, the postal service experiment will involve hundreds of people and tens of companies in Porvoo's Anttila village, close to the Finnish capital.
The most efficient stroke service experiment was most successful in co-ordinating patient flow from hospital to (nursing) home, through capacity planning and efficient discharge procedures.
The Delft stroke service experiment consisted of one hospital with a stroke unit, a major nursing home which made additional capacity available on a special stroke unit, specialised nurses in home care and a transmural stroke nurse to accompany patients and their files in and between institutions.
One of the main reasons why the stroke service experiment in Delft was more efficient than the other two experiments appears to be the additional capacity that was made available in the nursing home, probably reinforced by the transfer co-ordination efforts of the transmural stroke nurse.
But the company reportedly has other host and guest service experiments in the works, which could include key handoff and partnerships to provide rides to and from the airport.
The practical design of the stroke service experiments however varied considerably.
In all stroke service experiments evaluated, hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centres, general practitioners and home care worked together in order to provide co-ordinated care.
This prospective non-randomized controlled cluster trial assessed the cost-effectiveness of three stroke service experiments between 1999 and 2000 compared to conventional stroke care in the Netherlands.
Analysis of the organisation of stroke services showed that especially in the very early phase of the stroke service experiments the developments most of the times took place during regular management, department and discipline meetings [ 8].
For special stroke units in hospitals and nursing homes the additional treatment costs per day were estimated and additional costs for co-ordination specific to the stroke service experiments were taken into account.
The EDISSE study included a total of 598 stroke patients: 411 in the three stroke service experiments (151 in Delft, 149 in Nijmegen and 111 in Haarlem respectively) and 187 in the reference regions together.
