Sentence examples for suboptimal practice from inspiring English sources

A key pertinent question is: does majority practice correctly indicate what the benchmark should be, or might acceptance of majority practice in quality indicators crystallise suboptimal practice?

The identification of suboptimal practice is, however, only the first step for quality improvements.

This suboptimal practice was also previously described in similar settings in other developing countries [ 36, 45].

The high rate of FGA prescription in our study could indicate suboptimal practice, leaving the patients at higher risk of EPS than necessary.

The principle is sound, but if less important criteria are selected, then suboptimal practice may inadvertently be rewarded and the "herd" effect is lost.

Furthermore, most survey questions had an item non-response of around 14%, which might reflect respondents' lack of understanding, lack of knowledge about service specifications or reluctance to answer questions that might reveal suboptimal practice.

We detected suboptimal practices and behavior that put both patients and HCWs at significant risk of acquiring occupational infections.

Partial compliance and suboptimal practices were also reported in other countries such as Nigeria [15], India [16] and the UK [36] where HCWs make unjustified assessments of risks from- and infection status of clients rather than properly and consistently applying standard precautions.

We detected suboptimal practices and behaviors that put both patients and HCWs at significant risk of acquiring occupational infections.

A newborn care "practice transition" in which "suboptimal" practices are being replaced with "modernistic" practices may be underway, requiring attention and action.

As much of the patient safety training is focused on behavioural and practice issues, it is likely that suboptimal practices have already been developed by this stage.