Disease relevance of Quality Indicators, Health Care

• CCORT/CCS quality indicators for acute myocardial infarction care [1].
• AIMS: To compare the inactivation of feline calicivirus (FCV) (a surrogate for Norovirus, NV) with the reduction of a bacterial water quality indicator (Escherichia coli), a human enteric virus (poliovirus) and a viral indicator (MS2, FRNA bacteriophage), following the disinfection of wastewaters [2].

High impact information on Quality Indicators, Health Care

• MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Quality indicators of AMI care, including use of acute reperfusion therapy, aspirin, beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors; 30-day mortality [3].
• Recently, the Institute of Medicine released a report reviewing the quality of cancer care in the United States and called for further development and monitoring of quality indicators [4].
• Measuring quality in arthritis care: the Arthritis Foundation's quality indicator set for rheumatoid arthritis [5].
• OBJECTIVES: : To examine adherence to validated quality indicators assessing the quality of allopurinol use in the treatment of gout and asymptomatic hyperuricaemia [6].
• Water quality indicators were not statistically associated with virus occurrence, although some concordance was noted for chloride [7].

Biological context of Quality Indicators, Health Care

• Air pollution exposure monitoring and estimation. Part III. Development of new types of air quality indicators [8].
• A study was conducted to see the effect of arsenic contamination on soil quality indicators, viz., microbial biomass, soil respiration, fluorescein diacetate and dehydrogenase (DHG) activity in arsenic contaminated soils of West Bengal [9].

Anatomical context of Quality Indicators, Health Care

• Quality indicators in spinal cord injury care: a Swedish collaborative project. The Swedish Spinal Cord Injury Council 1998 [10].

Associations of Quality Indicators, Health Care with chemical compounds

• In addition, each structure is characterized by the average values of several local quality indicators, which include the atomic displacement, the density correlation, the B factor and the density index [11].
• The current study examined the use of meperidine in 2 urban hospitals as 1 quality indicator of the care of older adults, measuring the prevalence of its use and characteristics of the patients to whom it is administered [12].
• Comparison between two iodine-125 brachytherapy implant techniques: pre-planning and intra-operative by various dosimetry quality indicators [13].
• Significant correlations were observed between the standardized incidence ratios of five disease categories and some water quality indicators, especially aluminium and trihalomethane concentrations [14].
• Assortative mating by carotenoid-based plumage colour: a quality indicator in American goldfinches, Carduelis tristis [15].

Gene context of Quality Indicators, Health Care

• ASCCP patient management guidelines: Pap test specimen adequacy and quality indicators [16].
• In 1993, Continental Medical Systems, Inc. (CMS), a provider of comprehensive medical rehabilitation, developed the Total Outcomes and Prediction Program (TOPP) to measure and evaluate key medical rehabilitation outcomes, quality indicators, and patient satisfaction at its 37 acute rehabilitation hospitals [17].
• The specificity of ED Sono in ruling in an IUP was 100% (95% CI 98.3 to 100%), but analysis of secondary quality indicators reflecting times from first ED visit to treatment in Epoch 3 raised the possibility that an adnexal mass or signs of tubal rupture may have been missed on some ED Sonos [18].
• ANA/C pioneers project to develop quality indicators [19].
• MDS quality indicators: looking beneath the numbers [20].

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