Current quality measures are easily gamed and do not really measure what they are intended to measure.
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Moody's now looks closely at hospital clinical quality measures when rating debt offerings.
While hospitals report on quality measures such as cardiac bypass surgery outcomes, diagnostic errors aren't reported or measured by federal or private quality programs.
Moody's now looks at clinical quality measures when rating debt offerings.
The result is a manually-entered, cumbersome flow chart that can, at best, address a handful of the hundreds of known quality measures and use limited data to address these.
Bowles notes that the U.S. spends twice as much on health care than any other industrialized country, but routinely finds itself ranked from 25th to 50th among industrialized countries on quality measures.
And the ACO is set up by providers, not an insurance company, so the doctors and hospitals can work within their own framework as long as they are meeting the quality measures and outcomes agreed to in the contract with the insurer.
Although Technicolor employs comprehensive quality control measures, in this instance the issue was not detected prior to replication.
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As such, he adds, strong quality control measures need to be in place.
"For the most part I prefer drug store or department store or cosmeceutical products from your dermatologist because they're actually tested on the skin and they go through certain quality control measures, " said New York dermatologist Dr. Doris Day.
Air-quality management with measures to reduce emissions from aircraft, vehicles, auxiliary power units (APUs) and ground power units (GPU).
Stedman has invented a roadside air quality monitor that measures the emissions of 5, 000 to 6, 000 cars daily in the Denver area.
California has previously led the way nationally in curbing per capita electricity consumption, improvement in air quality and other measures of energy and environmental stewardship.
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First, the Order establishes the NDC within the National Archives to streamline declassification processes, facilitate quality-assurance measures, and implement standardized training regarding the declassification of records determined to have permanent historical value.
We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.
The answer is actually quite simple: consumers of higher education use prestige as the signal of higher quality because commonly accepted measures of actual student learning do not exist.
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Those obstacles included a recall over allegations of unintended sudden acceleration by Toyota vehicles, a problem that raised questions about the company's quality control, safety measures and customer service.
Your report measures watershed quality and I assume that runs well north of the city where small towns may not do as good a job depositing their treatment plant effluent.
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The challenge of the Decade is to focus attention on action-oriented activities and policies that ensure the long-term sustainable management of water resources, in terms of both quantity and quality, and include measures to improve sanitation.
The high quality brushed stainless steel casing measures 35 x 35 mm.
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At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Las Vegas in February 2009, Norton's Dr. Glassman presented a study on lumbar fusions that showed a significant improvement in fused patients' back pain, leg pain and other quality-of-life measures, both one and two years after their surgery.
The council will now produce an action plan detailing measures to improve air quality and there are plans to set up an air quality steering group.
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The government says the plans are part of wider measures to raise the quality of teachers in England to match the best-performing countries in the world.
In response to the report, RadioCentre - the trade body for UK commercial radio - said it welcomed the BBC Trust review, particularly "measures to prioritise high quality news coverage and feature minority sport more regularly".
The government will also invest in measures to improve health care quality and cut costs.
Last week, the county saw Rhyl High school placed in special measures after Estyn said the quality of teaching was significantly below average for Wales.
This must be complemented with measures to foster demand for quality health care to ensure families and communities are aware of life-saving medicines, know how to access them, and understand how and when to use them.
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Education is a universal right requiring political measures in order to provide a quality education to all citizens.
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Many people in the cities, however, want the authorities to take tough measures in order to improve their quality of life.
Officials are now promising new measures to improve Beijing's air quality even after the Olympics.
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