In addition, the programme has led to a decrease in the levels of social discrimination against women and girls.

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In the London pilot, extending patient choice led to a decrease in waiting times of 17% (compared with a 6% fall nationally).

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Although our absolute water use exceeded our initial baseline, we also increased our total real estate square footage, which led to a decrease in water use per square foot.

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Clinical practice educator Vicky McGauley said that devices, first piloted at the hospital a couple of years ago and now generally available, had led to a decrease in falls.

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The collaboration has led to a rapid decrease in development costs.

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Officials say that program led to a 45% decrease in alcohol-related incidents, such as arrests for driving under the influence.

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The warnings led to a "marked decrease" in such accidents, he said.

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Inrix says that drop led to a 30% decrease in congestion.

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But in the commercially insured population, the program led to a net medical cost decrease of 22% compared to a control group not using the care-management services.

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While the rest of the country, over the same twenty-year period, saw the growth in incarceration that led to our current astonishing numbers, New York, despite the Rockefeller drug laws, saw a marked decrease in its number of inmates.

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