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Systematic quality monitoring is widely used in the US and in the UK [ 16].
Results from our study show, that high rates of appropriate clinical action and low proportions of overtreatment may also be achieved in a country without systematic quality monitoring.
In Switzerland, systematic quality monitoring and annual report cards on quality of care [ 9], and financial incentives to improve quality, are not implemented.
However, limited data exist about physician response to poor risk factor control and markers of overtreatment in settings without systematic quality monitoring.
To our knowledge, this is the first study in a country without systematic quality monitoring, to document appropriate physician response to poor control of cardiovascular risk factors and potential overtreatment.
In Switzerland, a country without systematic quality monitoring, we found that measuring proportions in control without evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control largely underestimated quality of care.
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Systematic water quality monitoring efforts are critical to help resource managers improve the ecological integrity of estuaries.
As regards emissions, systematic air quality monitoring of the area around the refinery began in 2005, so there are no reliable data for the time window preceding HM deaths (January 1994 December 2003).
In conclusion, use of guideline recommended processes of care has improved substantially between 2003 and 2010 following the initiation of systematic quality of care monitoring among incident HF patients admitted to Danish hospitals and registered in the DHFR.
A synthesis of findings will be organised to provide guidance for future solution-focused environmental monitoring and explore more systematic ways to assess mixture exposures and combination effects in future water quality monitoring.
The correlation coefficient for the systematic calculation between water quality variables and regression analysis indicates indirect means for water quality monitoring.
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