The sensitivity and specificity of the set of indicators, that indicate the start of proactive palliative care for patients with COPD, in predicting the first unexpected readmission to hospital for AECOPD within 8 weeks.
The sensitivity and specificity of the set of indicators, that indicate the start of proactive palliative care for patients hospitalized for COPD, in predicting death for any cause within 1 year.
The sensitivity and specificity of the set of indicators, that indicate the start of proactive palliative care for patients hospitalized for COPD, in predicting death as a result of pulmonary insufficiency within 1 year.
The primary objective is to assess the discriminating power of a set of indicators that indicates the start of proactive palliative care for patients with COPD. 2. The secondary objective is to examine to what extend individual indicators (or clusters) indicative are for the need of proactive palliative care.
The funding allocation is based on a set of indicators that represent research activities.
We were looking for a set of indicators that would spark and sustain discussion about costs and tradeoffs.
It provides a probabilistic characterization of the performance of different alternatives in terms of a set of indicators that reflect the potential benefits for different interest groups.
He believes there should be a smaller set of indicators that show change in people's lives across all five components, and that can be easily monitored by community groups.
The latest taskforce report claims that "the education community has reached a consensus on the skills and competencies that are important … and a small set of indicators that are feasible and desirable to track at the global level".
Participants at a follow-up meeting to the Busan conference on aid effectiveness have agreed a set of indicators that will provide the basis for a global monitoring framework for development assistance.
As already reported, the analysis of the database is an attempt by the Italian Association of AMD initiative to identify a set of indicators that can be used in the context of continuous quality improvement.
