Sentence examples for survey and certification from inspiring English sources

"Serious Deficiencies in Nursing Homes Are Often Missed, Report Says" (news article, May 15), about a Government Accountability Office report, reinforces the need to reform the nursing home survey and certification system.

If the number of failures exceeds expected levels by 50 percent, transplant programs are flagged, explained Thomas E. Hamilton, director of survey and certification for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Leslie Norwalk is administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which directs day-to-day operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Child Health Insurance Programs, Survey and Certification of health care facilities and other federal health care initiatives.

The authors explore the evolution, potential uses, and limitations of four existing large data sets in long-term care: Minimum Data Set (MDS), Outcome Assessment and Information Set (OASIS), Online Survey and Certification Reporting System (OSCAR), and Consumer Surveys.

First, CMS and state survey and certification agencies continue their existing regulatory enforcement efforts.

In the last decade, the understanding of what quality means from the nursing homes' client perspective has become a growing focus of interest [ 3, 6, 7], such that state and federal programs in the United States of America (USA) have included these perspectives in their survey and certification processes [ 1, 3].

Their influence is starting to broaden the sorts of career-management tools available online, like salary surveys and certification tests, which still cater to the Net's early adopters, technology professionals.

The mRT-PCR method has the potential to be used routinely for large-scale surveys and certification programs.

North Carolina State Health Plan claims data from 944 500 individuals enrolled between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010, supplemented with data from the Area Resource File and Online Survey, Certification and Reporting data network.

The study cohort was drawn from a merged dataset of Medicaid and Medicare claims, the minimum data set (MDS), the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system, and the National Death Index in 45 states in the United States (all except Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, Oregon, and Rhode Island) for 2001-5.

Demographic variables collected in the survey were sex, age, race/ethnicity, training and certification, and whether the respondent was or had been a parent or child guardian.