Thus, we hypothesize that organizations with substandard performance on the first measurement will show more improvement than organizations whose performance was already relatively good.
Our hypotheses are that publication of this quality information leads to improved performance, and that organizations with substandard performance will improve more than those whose performance is relatively good.
Despite the efforts of national and international regulatory agencies and organizations, presence of substandard and counterfeit drugs in developing countries' markets continues to rise.
Seafarers from developed countries must make themselves competititve if they wish to take advantage and practice in a global environment., thirteen flag states have been found by international shipping organizations to have substandard regulations.
The batteries named in the exchange program initiated by Apple on July 31 for certain MacBook Pro models are not a safety hazard, according to the CPSC, though the organization has called them "substandard," and users reported hearing high-pitched sounds coming from the batteries.
Mrs. Whitman said she was pleased with much of Mr. DiFrancesco's plan, especially a provision that would allow patients to sue health maintenance organizations if they receive substandard care.
(Phillip Longman's 2007 book, Best Care Anywhere, ably documents the VA's remarkable transformation from a substandard outfit into the outstanding health care organization it has become).
This Washington, DC, group helps community organizations develop their capacity to document environmental health hazards in substandard housing and to pursue effective organizing and advocacy strategies for corrective and preventive action [for more information, see "Community Environmental Health Resource Center," p. A303 this issue].
Both hypotheses were confirmed: almost all indicator scores improved over time and long-term care organizations for the elderly with substandard performance improved more than those with a performance which was already relatively good.
What's substandard is the wins and losses in this organization, and we have to change that.
As a physician who has evaluated dozens of individuals in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for legal groups and human rights organizations, I know that high-profile deaths are only one small piece of the story of severely substandard healthcare in America's immigration detention system.
