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Silver, Nettie W., and J. Theodore Repa. "The Effect of Word Processing on the Quality of Writing and Self-Esteem of Secondary School English-As-Second-Language Students: Writing without Censure." Journal of Educational Computing Research 9, no. 2 (May 1993): 265–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/3wwp-10yb-n41u-7hcg.

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Current research on the academic and social status of ESL students focuses upon the three major changes that have occurred in large urban centers throughout the United States: the increased population of limited-English-proficient youngsters, the increased dropout rate among these students despite a decrease among the native-speaking population, and the installation of microcomputers in all city secondary schools. The effect of using word processing on the self-esteem and quality of writing of sixty-six beginning ESL students in an urban secondary school was the focus of this research. A quasi-experimental study using a pretest/posttest design was conducted for a period of one cycle of thirteen weeks. It was hypothesized that the use of word processing would improve the quality of writing and self-esteem. The findings established that there was a statistically significant difference in the quality of writing between the experimental group, which used word processing, and the control group, which used traditional pen and paper procedures. The expectation of improvement of self-esteem was not supported.
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Roessingh, Hetty, and David Nordstokke. "Handwriting at Grade 3: More Than a Matter of ‘Neatness’." Language and Literacy 21, no. 3 (August 27, 2019): 38–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29392.

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This article reports on the role of the quality and fluency of handwriting and spelling on the writing outcomes for 222 Grade 3 students who attend a large, public school in a major urban center in Canada. Findings indicate that control over the exigencies of handwriting, and fluency account for a large proportion in the variability of quality writing outcomes. Spelling is important, but only indirectly, in predicting the quality writing outcomes. Samples of student work are provided to illustrate the quality standards for handwriting. We advocate for sustained attention to handwriting instruction, effortful practice and increased opportunities to write in a variety of genres for meaningful and authentic purposes.
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Arrazola, Jessica, Malorie Polster, Paul Etkind, John S. Moran, and Richard L. Vogt. "Lessons Learned From an Intensive Writing Training Course for Applied Epidemiologists." Public Health Reports 135, no. 4 (June 24, 2020): 428–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033354920932659.

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Although writing is a valued public health competency, authors face a multitude of barriers (eg, lack of time, lack of mentorship, lack of appropriate instruction) to publication. Few writing courses for applied public health professionals have been documented. In 2017 and 2018, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered to implement a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Intensive Writing Training course to improve the quality of submissions from applied epidemiologists working at health departments. The course included 3 webinars, expert mentorship from experienced authors, and a 2-day in-person session. As of April 2020, 39 epidemiologists had participated in the course. Twenty-four (62%) of the 39 epidemiologists had submitted manuscripts, 17 (71%) of which were published. The program’s evaluation demonstrates the value of mentorship and peer feedback during the publishing process, the importance of case study exercises, and the need to address structural challenges (eg, competing work responsibilities or supervisor support) in the work environment.
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Eichstädter, R., R. Haux, U. Pohl, S. Rebel, S. Ziegler, and E. Ammenwerth. "A Randomized Evaluation of a Computer-Based Nursing Documentation System." Methods of Information in Medicine 40, no. 02 (2001): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1634465.

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AbstractA two-month randomized, controlled trial based on 60 patients has been performed on a ward of the Department of Psychiatry at Heidelberg University Medical Center, Germany, to investigate the influence of computer-based nursing documentation on time investment for documentation, quality of documentation and user acceptance. Time measurements, questionnaires, documentation analysis and interviews were used to compare patients documented with the computer-based system (PIK group) with the control group (patients documented with the paper-based system). The results showed the advantages and disadvantages of computer-based nursing documentation. Time needed for nursing care planning was lower in the PIK group. Some formal aspects of quality were considerably better in the PIK group. On the other hand, time required for documentation of tasks and for report writing was greater in the PIK group. User acceptance increased significantly during the study. The interviews indicated a positive influence of PIK on the cooperation between nurses and physicians.
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Van Hout, Tom, and Geert Jacobs. "News production theory and practice." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 59–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.18.1.04hou.

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This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view of news access theory as it is reflected in selected sociological and anthropological literature on the ethnography of news production. Next, we show how these theoretical notions can be applied to the study of press releases and particularly to the linguistic pragmatic analysis of the specific social and textual practices that surround their transformation into news reports. Drawing on selected fieldwork data collected at the business desk of a major Flemish quality newspaper, we present an innovative methodology combining newsroom ethnography and computer-assisted writing process analysis which documents how a reporter discovers a story, introduces it into the newsroom, writes and reflects on it. In doing so, we put the individual journalist’s writing practices center stage, zoom in on the specific ways in which he interacts with sources and conceptualize power in terms of his dependence on press releases. Following Beeman & Peterson (2001), we argue in favor of a view of journalism as ‘interpretive practice’ and of news production as a process of entextualization involving multiple actors who struggle over authority, ownership and control.
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Yan, Donglin, Rosemarie Conigliaro, and Laura Fanucchi. "Duly noted: Lessons from a two-site intervention to assess and improve the quality of clinical documentation in the electronic health record." Applied Clinical Informatics 07, no. 03 (July 2016): 653–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/aci-2016-02-cr-0025.

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SummaryCommunication errors are identified as a root cause contributing to a majority of sentinel events. The clinical note is a cornerstone of physician communication, yet there are few published interventions on teaching note writing in the electronic health record (EHR). This is a prospective, two-site, quality improvement project to assess and improve the quality of clinical documentation in the EHR using a validated assessment tool.Internal Medicine (IM) residents at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (UK) and Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (MMC) received one of two interventions during an inpatient ward month: either a lecture, or a lecture and individual feedback on progress notes. A third group of residents in each program served as control. Notes were evaluated with the Physician Documentation Quality Instrument 9 (PDQI-9).Due to a significant difference in baseline PDQI-9 scores at MMC, the sites were not combined. Of 75 residents at the UK site, 22 were eligible, 20 (91%) enrolled, 76 notes in total were scored. Of 156 residents at MMC, 22 were eligible, 18 (82%) enrolled, 40 notes in total were scored. Note quality did not improve as measured by the PDQI-9.This educational quality improvement project did not improve the quality of clinical documentation as measured by the PDQI-9. This project underscores the difficulty in improving note quality. Further efforts should explore more effective educational tools to improve the quality of clinical documentation in the EHR. Citation: Fanucchi L, Yan D, Conigliaro RL. Duly noted: Lessons from a two-site intervention to assess and improve the quality of clinical documentation in the electronic health record.
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Muharlisiani, Lusy Tunik, Henny Sukrisno, Emmy Wahyuningtyas, Shofiya Syidada, and Dina Chamidah. "Arrangement of Archives of Cloud Computing Based and Utilization of Microsoft Access." Proceeding of Community Development 1 (January 30, 2018): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.30874/comdev.2017.26.

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Service at the “Kelurahan” is a very important part in determining the success of development, especially in public service. The problem faced is the lack of skill level of the “Kelurahan” apparatus with the more dynamic demands of the community and the archive management system is still conventional and manual that is writing the identity of the archive into the book agenda, expedition, control card, and borrowed archive card, so it takes a more practical electronic system, effective and efficient so required to develop themselves in order to improve public services. Conventional administration and archive management must be transformed into cloud-based computing (digital), for which archiving managers should always be responsive and follow these developments and wherever possible in order to utilize for archival activities, with greater access expected archives are evidence at once able to talk about historical facts and events and be able to give meaning and benefit to human life, so archives that were only visible and readable at archival centers can now be accessed online, and even their services have led to automated service systems. Using Microsoft Access which its main function is to handle the process of data manipulation and manufacture of a system, this system is built so that the bias runs on Cloud which means Cloud itself is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored on servers on the internet and stored. The purpose of this program is the implementation of administrative management that has been based cloud computing (digital) and is expected to be a solution in managing the archive so that if it has been designed and programmed, it can be stored in the computer and benefi- cial to the “Kelurahan” apparatus and add in the field of management archives in the form of improving the quality of service to the community, can facilitate and scientific publications.
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Arfuch, Victoria Mailen, Carina Aguilar Martín, Anna Berenguera, Rosa Caballol Angelats, Noèlia Carrasco-Querol, Gemma González Serra, Maria Cinta Sancho Sol, et al. "Cost–utility analysis of a multicomponent intervention for fibromyalgia syndrome in primary care versus usual clinical practice: study protocol for an economic evaluation of a randomised control trial." BMJ Open 11, no. 2 (February 2021): e043562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043562.

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IntroductionFibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) imposes a high cost on society. The significant economic burden from the use of healthcare and, especially, social resources is a spur to revising the usual clinical care (UCC) and to improving treatment strategies. FMS has a deleterious effect on the quality of life (QOL) and productivity, which considerably increase the indirect costs to society. This study reports an economic evaluation comparing the cost and health benefits in a multicomponent intervention programme and UCC of patients with FMS who attend primary healthcare centres of the Gerència Territorial Terres de L’Ebre region of Catalonia, Spain. This article is linked to the pre-results of a randomised control trial study on the implementation of this intervention programme (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04049006).Method and analysisA cost–utility analysis will be conducted from a societal perspective. Quality-adjusted life years will be calculated from the results of the SF-36 questionnaire, a QOL measurement instrument. Direct and indirect healthcare costs will be obtained from official prices and reports published by the Spanish Public Health Administration and the National Statistics Institute. The incremental cost–utility ratio will be estimated to compare the two healthcare practices. Deterministic sensitivity analysis will also be used to compare different cost scenarios, modifying the items with the highest weight in the cost composition.Ethics and disseminationThe Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the IDIAPJGol Institute approved this study on 25 April 2018 (code P18/068) in accordance with the Helsinki/Tokyo Declaration. Information will be provided orally and in writing to participants, and their informed consent will be required. Participant anonymity will be guaranteed. The dissemination strategy includes publications in scientific journals and presentations in local and national media and at academic conferences.Trial registration number:NCT04049006; Pre-results.
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Hayashi, Yusuke, Toshifumi Ise, Kiichiro Tsuji, Keiichi Shimizu, and Fumiki Inui. "A power control scheme between quality control centers in FRIENDS." Electrical Engineering in Japan 151, no. 2 (2005): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eej.20040.

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Archambault, Patrick, Stéphane Turcotte, Pascal Y. Smith, Kassim Said Abasse, Catherine Paquet, André Côté, Dario Gomez, et al. "Intention to Use Wiki-Based Knowledge Tools: Survey of Quebec Emergency Health Professionals." JMIR Medical Informatics 9, no. 6 (June 18, 2021): e24649. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24649.

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Background Clinical decision support systems are information technologies that assist clinicians in making better decisions. Their adoption has been limited because their content is difficult to adapt to local contexts and slow to adapt to emerging evidence. Collaborative writing applications such as wikis have the potential to increase access to existing and emerging evidence-based knowledge at the point of care, standardize emergency clinical decision making, and quickly adapt this knowledge to local contexts. However, little is known about the factors influencing health professionals’ use of wiki-based knowledge tools. Objective This study aims to measure emergency physicians’ (EPs) and other acute care health professionals’ (ACHPs) intentions to use wiki-based knowledge tools in trauma care and identify determinants of this intention that can be used in future theory-based interventions for promoting the use of wiki-based knowledge tools in trauma care. Methods In total, 266 EPs and 907 ACHPs (nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists) from 12 Quebec trauma centers were asked to answer a survey based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The TPB constructs were measured using a 7-point Likert scale. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations between the TPB constructs and intention were calculated. Multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to identify the salient beliefs. Results Among the eligible participants, 57.1% (152/266) of EPs and 31.9% (290/907) of ACHPs completed the questionnaire. For EPs, we found that attitude, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and subjective norm (SN) were significant determinants of the intention to use wiki-based knowledge tools and explained 62% of its variance. None of the sociodemographic variables were related to EPs’ intentions to use wiki-based knowledge tools. The regression model identified two normative beliefs ("approval by physicians" and "approval by patients") and two behavioral beliefs ("refreshes my memory" and "reduces errors"). For ACHPs, attitude, PBC, SN, and two sociodemographic variables (profession and the previous personal use of a wiki) were significantly related to the intention to use wiki-based knowledge tools and explained 60% of the variance in behavioral intention. The final regression model for ACHPs included two normative beliefs ("approval by the hospital trauma team" and "people less comfortable with information technology"), one control belief ("time constraints"), and one behavioral belief ("access to evidence"). Conclusions The intentions of EPs and ACHPs to use wiki-based knowledge tools to promote best practices in trauma care can be predicted in part by attitude, SN, and PBC. We also identified salient beliefs that future theory-based interventions should promote for the use of wiki-based knowledge tools in trauma care. These interventions will address the barriers to using wiki-based knowledge tools, find ways to ensure the quality of their content, foster contributions, and support the exploration of wiki-based knowledge tools as potential effective knowledge translation tools in trauma care.
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Mittinty, Manasi M., John Lee, Amanda C. de C. Williams, and Natasha Curran. "Exploring patient experiences of a pain management centre: A qualitative study." Scandinavian Journal of Pain 17, no. 1 (October 1, 2017): 378–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjpain.2017.09.017.

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AbstractBackground and aimsTo improve care and management of patients with chronic pain it is important to understand patients’ experiences of treatment, and of the people and the environment involved. As chronic pain patients often have long relationships with medical clinics and pain management centres, the team and team interactions with the patients could impact the treatment outcome. The aim of this study was to elicit as honest as possible an account of chronic pain patients’ experiences associated with their care and feed this information back to the clinical team as motivation for improvement.MethodsThe research was conducted at a large hospital-based pain management centre. One hundred consecutive patients aged 18 years and above, who had visited the centre at least once before, were invited to participate. Seventy patients agreed and were asked to write a letter, as if to a friend, describing the centre. On completion of the study, all letters were transcribed into NVivo software and a thematic analysis performed.ResultsSix key themes were identified: (i) staff attitude and behaviour; (ii) interactions with the physician; (iii) importance of a dedicated pain management centre; (iv) personalized care; (v) benefits beyond pain control; (vi) recommending the pain management centre.ConclusionThe findings suggest that the main reasons that patients recommended the centre were: (i) support and validation provided by the staff; (ii) provision of detailed information about the treatment choices available; (iii) personalized management plan and strategies to improve overall quality of life alongside pain control. None of the letters criticized the care provided, but eight of seventy reported long waiting times for the first appointment as a problem.ImplicationsPatient views are central to improving care. However, satisfaction questionnaires or checklists can be intimidating, and restrictive in their content, not allowing patients to offer spontaneous feedback. We used a novel approach of writing a letter to a friend, which encouraged reporting of uncensored views. The results of the study have encouraged the clinical team to pursue their patient management strategies and work to reduce the waiting time for a first appointment.
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Ehrmeyer, Sharon S., and Ronald H. Laessig. "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Equivalent Quality Control and Manufacturers' Internal Quality Control Systems." Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology 7, no. 2 (June 2008): 76–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/poc.0b013e3181727b5b.

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Lombard, Maria. "Control, Communication, and Knowledge-Building in Asian Call Centers." Communication & Language at Work 3, no. 3 (December 3, 2014): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/claw.v1i3.16565.

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Communication within international call centers can be significantly complicated by breakdowns that result from multiple layers of corporate language. This case study explores training sessions and documentation developed and delivered by an American team responsible for training international call center workers located in the Philippines. Findings show that attempts to standardize and control workplace language can limit meaningful two-way communication, leaving workers to both question what they are told and invent new ways of communicating. Recommendations are presented in this study for a workplace writing model that can overcome language differences through authentic interaction.
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Lewis, Jane A. "Thin-Layer Chromatography of Writing Inks—Quality Control Considerations." Journal of Forensic Sciences 41, no. 5 (September 1, 1996): 14015J. http://dx.doi.org/10.1520/jfs14015j.

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Valizadeh, Mohammadreza. "Dialogue Journal Writing: Effects on the Quality of EFL learners’ Descriptive Writing." Shanlax International Journal of Education 9, S1-May (May 10, 2021): 26–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/education.v9is1-may.3996.

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This study investigated the effect of dialogue journal writing on descriptive writing performance of English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Turkey. Participants were 53 EFL upper-intermediate learners who were selected based on their performance on Oxford Quick Placement Test and assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. Whereas the members in the control group participated in descriptive writing pre and post-tests only, the participants in the experimental group were required to write two journals a week for one month (four weeks) in the period between the pre- and post-tests. The teacher-researcher only tried to model the correct usage of the error in her responses, but did not explicitly correct the errors or did not provide any type of explicit feedback. Results of independent sample t-test showed a significant difference between the experimental and control group regarding the overall descriptive writing performance.
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Golubicic, Ivana, Marina Nikitovic, and Gordana Gligorijevic. "Quality control in radiotherapy of brain tumors." Archive of Oncology 10, no. 3 (2002): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/aoo0203187g.

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(Conclusion) Radiotherapy techniques for brain tumors are complex and require precision in planning and giving radiotherapy programs. Continual application of quality control should enable achieving better treatment results with minimizing risk for late treatment-related complications. Introduction of uniform and precise parameters for the therapy planning, dose determining and patient's control, makes possible for optimal follow-up and comparison of treatment results between different therapeutic centers.
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Malkoske, Kyle E., Michelle K. Nielsen, Laurent Tantôt, Natalie Pomerleau-Dalcourt, Marie-Pierre Milette, Kevin R. Diamond, Normand Frenière, et al. "COMP report: CPQR technical quality control guidelines for radiation treatment centers." Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 19, no. 2 (February 26, 2018): 44–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acm2.12295.

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Wevers, Brenda Lynne, and T. F. McLaughlin. "Use of Learning Centers, Achievement, and Attitudes of Students in Grade Nine Language Arts." Psychological Reports 73, no. 3_part_1 (December 1993): 930. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00332941930733pt131.

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The effects of two types of teaching procedures in two Grade 9 language arts classes on 38 students’ achievement and motivation were evaluated. A pre- and posttest control group design was employed. The students in the treatment group were taught five months of the regular curriculum using learning centers while the control group were given a teacher-directed program without learning centers. Pre- and posttest scores were taken from an examination requiring reading and writing and a teacher-developed questionnaire. Analysis indicated the students taught with the learning centers scored significantly better on the achievement and attitude posttest than the control group.
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O’Lawrence, Henry, and Rohan Chowlkar. "Cost effectiveness in palliative care setting." International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior 21, no. 2 (June 11, 2018): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijotb-02-2018-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the cost effectiveness of palliative care on patients in a home health and hospice setting. Secondary data set was utilized to test the hypotheses of this study. Home health care and hospice care services have the potential to avert hospital admissions in patients requiring palliative care, which significantly affects medicare spending. With the aging population, it has become evident that demand of palliative care will increase four-fold. It was determined that current spending on end-of-life care is radically emptying medicare funds and fiscally weakening numerous families who have patients under palliative care during life-threatening illnesses. The study found that a majority of people registering for palliative and hospice care settings are above the age group of 55 years old. Design/methodology/approach Different variables like length of stay, mode of payment and disease diagnosis were used to filter the available data set. Secondary data were utilized to test the hypothesis of this study. There are very few studies on hospice and palliative care services and no study focuses on the cost associated with this care. Since a very large number of the USA, population is turning 65 and over, it is very important to analyze the cost of care for palliative and hospice care. For the purpose of this analysis, data were utilized from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS), which has been conducted periodically by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Descriptive statistics, χ2 tests and t-tests were used to test for statistical significance at the p<0.05 level. Findings The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was utilized for this result. H1 predicted that patients in the age group of 65 years and up have the highest utilization of home and hospice care. This study examined various demographic variables in hospice and home health care which may help to evaluate the cost of care and the modes of payments. This section of the result presents the descriptive analysis of dependent, independent and covariate variables that provide the overall national estimates on differences in use of home and hospice care in various age groups and sex. Research limitations/implications The data set used was from the 2007 NHHCS survey, no data have been collected thereafter, and therefore, gap in data analysis may give inaccurate findings. To compensate for this gap in the data set, recent studies were reviewed which analyzed cost in palliative care in the USA. There has been a lack of evidence to prove the cost savings and improved quality of life in palliative/hospice care. There is a need for new research on the various cost factors affecting palliative care services as well as considering the quality of life. Although, it is evident that palliative care treatment is less expensive as compared to the regular care, since it eliminates the direct hospitalization cost, but there is inadequate research to prove that it improves the quality of life. A detailed research is required considering the additional cost incurred in palliative/hospice care services and a cost-benefit analysis of the same. Practical implications While various studies reporting information applicable to the expenses and effect of family caregiving toward the end-of-life were distinguished, none of the previous research discussed this issue as their central focus. Most studies addressed more extensive financial effect of palliative and end-of-life care, including expenses borne by the patients themselves, the medicinal services framework and safety net providers or beneficent/willful suppliers. This shows a significant hole in the current writing. Social implications With the aging population, it has become evident that demand of palliative/hospice care will increase four-fold. The NHHCS have stopped keeping track of the palliative care requirements after 2007, which has a negative impact on the growing needs. Cost analysis can only be performed by analyzing existing data. This review has recognized a huge niche in the evidence base with respect to the cost cares of giving care and supporting a relative inside a palliative/hospice care setting. Originality/value The study exhibited that cost diminishments in aggressive medications can take care of the expenses of palliative/hospice care services. The issue of evaluating result in such a physically measurable way is complicated by the impalpable nature of large portions of the individual components of outcome. Although physical and mental well-being can be evaluated to a certain degree, it is significantly more difficult to gauge in a quantifiable way, the social and profound measurements of care that help fundamentally to general quality of care.
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Ristov, Pančo. "MODEL FOR THE RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY AND SAFETY OF THE CONTROL CENTERS OF THE VESSEL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS." PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 25, no. 4 (July 19, 2013): 395–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v25i4.1088.

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The quality of Vessel Traffic Management and Information Systems depends on the quality of all subsystems, in particular the quality of control centers. The most commonly used quantitative indicators of the control centers' quality are: reliability, availability, safety, and system failure. Therefore, a block diagram of reliability and the model for reliability / availability (Markov model) have been created in this paper and a detailed analysis and calculation of the quantitative indicators of critical components (servers) of the control center have been performed. The quality functioning of the control centers will enable gathering, processing, storing and dissemination of timely, safe, and reliable data and information to the services in charge of monitoring and management of maritime traffic.
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Wu, Liangxiang. "Study on Quality Control of Time Limit in Electronic Medical Record Writing." Chinese Medical Record English Edition 1, no. 6 (June 2013): 224–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23256176.2013.825987.

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Yusop, Z. M., M. Z. Md Zain, M. Hussein, A. R. Musa, and I. Ishak. "Assistive Pen to Improve Quality Writing of Hand Tremor with Proportional-Control." International Journal of Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing 3, no. 1 (2015): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/ijmmm.2015.v3.166.

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Oley, Nancy. "Extra Credit and Peer Tutoring: Impact on the Quality of Writing in Introductory Psychology in an Open Admissions College." Teaching of Psychology 19, no. 2 (April 1992): 78–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15328023top1902_3.

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Students were assigned a five-page research paper on a topic in psychology. In-class instruction in library skills was provided early in the course. Assistance with content-specific writing skills was made available, using extra credit incentives on a voluntary or involuntary basis outside of class, by staff consultants from the library and peers from the tutorial and writing centers. The quality of the final paper was evaluated on a 4-point scale. Students who consulted got higher paper grades, and there was a significant positive correlation between the number of consultations and the final paper grade, whether the consultations were voluntary or involuntary. Prior grade point average (GPA) also predicted paper grades.
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Sandy-Hodgetts, Kylie, Richard Parsons, Richard Norman, Mark W. Fear, Fiona M. Wood, and Scott W. White. "Effectiveness of negative pressure wound therapy in the prevention of surgical wound complications in the cesarean section at-risk population: a parallel group randomised multicentre trial—the CYGNUS protocol." BMJ Open 10, no. 10 (October 2020): e035727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035727.

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IntroductionCaesarean delivery is steadily becoming one of the more common surgical procedures in Australia with over 100 000 caesarean sections performed each year. Over the last 10 years in Australia, the caesarean section rate has increased from 28% in 2003 to 33% in 2013. On the international stage, the Australian caesarean delivery rates are higher than the average for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Australia ranked as 8 out of 33 and is second to the USA. Postoperative surgical site infections (SSIs) and wound complications are the most common and costly event following a caesarean section. Globally, complication rates following a caesarean delivery vary from 4.9% to 9.8%. Complications such as infection and wound breakdown affect the postpartum mother’s health and well-being, and contribute to healthcare costs for clinical management that often spans the acute, community and primary healthcare settings. Published level one studies using advanced wound dressings in the identified ‘at-risk’ population prior to surgery for prophylactic intervention are yet to be forthcoming.Methods and analysisA parallel group randomised control trial of 448 patients will be conducted across two metropolitan hospitals in Perth, Western Australia, which provide obstetric and midwifery services. We will recruit pregnant women in the last trimester, prior to their admission into the healthcare facility for delivery of their child. We will use a computer-generated block sequence to randomise the 448 participants to either the interventional (negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) dressing, n=224) or comparator arm (non-NPWT dressing, n=224). The primary outcome measure is the occurrence of surgical wound dehiscence (SSWD) or SSI. The Centres for Disease Control reporting definition of either superficial or deep infection at 30 days will be used as the outcome measure definition. SWD will be classified as per the World Union of Wound Healing Societies grading system (grade I–IV). We will assess recruitment rate, and adherence to intervention and follow-up. We will assess the potential effectiveness of NPWT in the prevention of postpartum surgical wound complications at three time points during the study; postoperative days 5, 14 and 30, after which the participant will be closed out of the trial. We will use statistical methods to determine efficacy, and risk stratification will be conducted to determine the SWD risk profile of the participant. Follow-up at day 30 will assess superficial and deep infection, and wound dehiscence (grade I–IV) and the core outcome data set for wound complications. This study will collect health-related quality of life (European Quality of Life 5-Dimensions 5-Level Scale), mortality and late complications such as further surgery with a cost analysis conducted. The primary analysis will be by intention-to-treat. This clinical trial protocol follows the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) and the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials guidelines.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval was obtained through St John of God Health Care (HREC1409), Western Australia Department of Health King Edward Memorial Hospital (HREC3111). Study findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. We used the SPIRIT checklist when writing our study protocol.Trial registration numberAustralian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12618002006224p).
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Styati, Erlik Widiyani, and Lulus Irawati. "The Effect of Graphic Organizers on ELT Students’ Writing Quality." Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics 5, no. 2 (November 24, 2020): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/ijefl.v5i2.283.

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Graphic organizers are used in ELT classroom to help the students learn better. It refers to the way the students use graphic organizers in writing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of graphic organizers on ELT students’ writing quality. This study was a quasi-experimental research design. The experimental group was taught by using graphic organizers. The control group was administered by using conventional strategy. The participants of the research were the second semester students of English Department, in one of the private universities in Madiun. The data were analyzed by utilizing independent t-test and one-way ANOVA based on the level of significance at .05. The result of the study shows that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the students in the experimental and control groups. The students who are taught by using graphic organizers are better than the students who are taught using conventional strategy. The students in the experimental group perform better on writing quality in terms of content, vocabulary, and mechanics than those who do in the control group. It can be concluded that graphic organizers have a significant effect on ELT students’ writing quality. It is effective to be used in order to help the students write better. The students are successful in generating the ideas of writing and it can create a social community. We recommend for the future researchers to realize other various graphic organizer models into research.
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Egharevba, Osayaba Peace, Christian Chukwuemeka Nzotta, Emmanuel Oyeyemi Oyekunle, and Mohammed Anas. "Assessing the Status of Quality Control Parameters of Four Computed Tomography Scanners in Ibadan." European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences 3, no. 4 (July 25, 2021): 80–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.4.849.

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Background: Quality control (QC) of computed tomography (CT) scanners is important to evaluate succinctly quality image and radiation dose obtainable in a clinical environment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of images generated by CT scanners used at some diagnostic facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional design was employed in this study, four centers were studied, one government hospital and three private hospitals. The head CT phantom was used to verify the accomplishment of the CT scanners performance to the international quality requirements. Regions of interest were selected at the center of the image and at the periphery to obtain results for the CT number for water test, uniformity test, noise, and artifact test. Results: The mean CT number for water across the centers ranged from –0.12 HU to –2.2 HU which were within ±3 HU recommended by the equipment manufacturer. Values of standard deviation of the mean CT number ranged from 2.41 to 5.77 HU which to a little extent exceeded the set ±5 HU tolerance range. Similarly, the presence of streak artifact was observed in the images obtained at one center. Conclusion: Two out of the four computed tomography scanners assessed passed the four tests performed. Noise and artifact were the problem observed at centers B and C respectively. There was however no likelihood of periodic performance of these basic quality control tests at two of the centers in this study. Adequate records of quality control data should be kept regularly to allow in-depth analysis of failure rates of different tests, changes occurring during equipment lifetime and comparisons among CT scanners.
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Llosa, Lorena, and Margaret E. Malone. "Comparability of students’ writing performance on TOEFL iBT and in required university writing courses." Language Testing 36, no. 2 (April 2, 2018): 235–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265532218763456.

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Investigating the comparability of students’ performance on TOEFL writing tasks and actual academic writing tasks is essential to provide backing for the extrapolation inference in the TOEFL validity argument (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008). This study compared 103 international non-native-English-speaking undergraduate students’ performance on two TOEFL iBT® writing tasks with their performance in required writing courses in US universities as measured by instructors’ ratings of student proficiency, instructor-assigned grades on two course assignments, and five dimensions of writing quality of the first and final drafts of those course assignments: grammatical, cohesive, rhetorical, sociopragmatic, and content control. Also, the quality of the writing on the TOEFL writing tasks was compared with the first and final drafts of responses to written course assignments using a common analytic rubric along the five dimensions. Correlations of scores from TOEFL tasks (Independent, Integrated, and the total Writing section) with instructor ratings of students’ overall English proficiency and writing proficiency were moderate and significant. However, only scores on the Integrated task and the Writing section were correlated with instructor-assigned grades on course assignments. Correlations between scores on TOEFL tasks and all dimensions of writing quality were positive and significant, though of lower magnitude for final drafts than for first drafts. The TOEFL scores were most highly correlated with cohesive and grammatical control and had the lowest correlations with rhetorical organization. The quality of the writing on the TOEFL tasks was comparable to that of the first drafts of course assignment but not the final drafts. These findings provide backing for the extrapolation inference, suggesting that the construct of academic writing proficiency as assessed by TOEFL “accounts for the quality of linguistic performance in English-medium institutions of higher education” (Chapelle, Enright, & Jamieson, 2008, p. 21).
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Cheema, Naveed R., Samip R. Master, and Richard P. Mansour. "Automated quality control process for tracking appropriateness of antiemesis." Journal of Clinical Oncology 36, no. 30_suppl (October 20, 2018): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2018.36.30_suppl.317.

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317 Background: Quality tracking and improvement are areas of importance for delivery of high value patient care. Quality Oncology Practice Initiatives (QOPI) are tools designed by ASCO to help oncology practices deliver high quality care. Specifically, QOPI measure 29 tracks whether antiemetics are administered appropriately with moderate/high emetic risk chemotherapy. In this study, we attempted to automate this quality measure using an adapted Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) procedure. Our primary aim was to develop an efficient and cost effective system to track appropriate anti emesis that is adaptable to other cancer centers. A secondary aim was to quantify any degree of over treatment in anti emesis in our center. Methods: We created an SQL procedure which accessed the EPIC CLARITY database and used 9 steps to identify how many chemotherapy administrations in our center for the year 2017 were given sufficient, over, or under anti emesis. We adapted our center’s antiemesis guidelines from 2017 ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Update for antiemetics. The program identified “pass”/”fail”/”pass(-)” for appropriate/insufficient/over treatment of anti emesis, respectively. Results: 1490 patient/chemotherapy encounters were found for 2017. 862/118/510 were high/intermediate/low emetic risk, respectively. 1314/14/162 chemotherapy administrations received “pass”/”fail”/”pass (-)”, respectively. The reason for 13 of 14 “fails” was lack of steroid in high emetic risk regimens. The primary reason for “pass (-)” was use of fosaprepitant in low/intermediate risk regimens. The time required to execute the program for all 1490 encounters was 40 seconds; the average time for manual review was 3 minutes per encounter. There was no discordance between “pass/fail” status in comparing automated and manual reviews. Conclusions: We have created an automated process which rapidly and accurately verifies adherence to QOPI measure 29. It eliminates time and costs associated with manual review. Further, this program saves costs by identifying areas of over treatment in anti emesis. We have demonstrated on a large scale an adaptable and shareable process for other centers using similar EMR databases.
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Nguyen, Phuong Nam T., Gert Rijlaarsdam, Tanja Janssen, and Wilfried Admiraal. "Effects of rhetorical text analysis on idea generation and text quality." ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171, no. 2 (July 15, 2019): 280–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/itl.16013.rij.

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Abstract Producing a meaningful written discourse in a foreign language requires a high cognitive effort of EFL learners. They face challenges caused by L2 word or grammar-related difficulties, and also by the L2 genre and genre conventions that may be quite different from what they experienced in their L1. The present study focusses on the support offered to Vietnamese L2 writers to overcome these hindrances. An intensive four-week writing intervention was designed and tested to examine whether encouraging genre awareness via a short session of sample text analysis could empower students to conduct effective brainstorming for argumentative writing. In a pre-test post-test control group design with switching replications, with 66 EFL intermediate undergraduate participants, the study obtained four indicators of L2 argumentative writing quality: idea generation, productivity, global text quality and self-efficacy. The results showed that participants integrated the sample text analysis into the idea generation stage. They created significantly longer self-expressive free writing texts, perceived the generated ideas as more useful, and used more of these ideas in their argumentative texts composition, compared to students from the control condition (with teacher instruction only). No treatment effects were found for productivity, global quality of final text, and self-efficacy. Students in both control and treatment conditions generally showed a significant improvement on these variables.
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de Sena Brandine, Guilherme, and Andrew D. Smith. "Falco: high-speed FastQC emulation for quality control of sequencing data." F1000Research 8 (November 7, 2019): 1874. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21142.1.

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Quality control is an essential first step in sequencing data analysis, and software tools for quality control are deeply entrenched in standard pipelines at most sequencing centers. Although the associated computations are straightforward, in many settings the total computing effort required for quality control is appreciable and warrants optimization. We present falco, an emulation of the popular FastQC tool that runs on average three times faster while generating equivalent results. Compared to FastQC, falco also provides greater scalability for datasets with longer reads and more flexible visualization of HTML reports.
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de Sena Brandine, Guilherme, and Andrew D. Smith. "Falco: high-speed FastQC emulation for quality control of sequencing data." F1000Research 8 (January 27, 2021): 1874. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21142.2.

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Quality control is an essential first step in sequencing data analysis, and software tools for quality control are deeply entrenched in standard pipelines at most sequencing centers. Although the associated computations are straightforward, in many settings the total computing effort required for quality control is appreciable and warrants optimization. We present Falco, an emulation of the popular FastQC tool that runs on average three times faster while generating equivalent results. Compared to FastQC, Falco also requires less memory to run and provides more flexible visualization of HTML reports.
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Graham, Steve, Xinghua Liu, Brendan Bartlett, Clarence Ng, Karen R. Harris, Angelique Aitken, Ashley Barkel, Colin Kavanaugh, and Joy Talukdar. "Reading for Writing: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Reading Interventions on Writing." Review of Educational Research 88, no. 2 (December 10, 2017): 243–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0034654317746927.

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This meta-analysis examined if students’ writing performance is improved by reading interventions in studies (k = 54 experiments; 5,018 students) where students were taught how to read and studies (k = 36 investigations; 3,060 students) where students’ interaction with words or text was increased through reading or observing others read. Studies included in this review involved true- or quasi-experiments (with pretests) written in English that tested the impact of a reading intervention on the writing performance of students in preschool to Grade 12. Studies were not included if the control condition was a writing intervention, treatment students received writing instruction as part of the reading intervention (unless control students received equivalent writing instruction), control students received a reading intervention (unless treatment students received more reading instruction than controls), study attrition exceeded 20%, less than 10 students were included in any experimental condition, and students attended a special school for students with disabilities. As predicted, teaching reading strengthened writing, resulting in statistically significant effects for an overall measure of writing (effect size [ES] = 0.57) and specific measures of writing quality (ES = 0.63), words written (ES = 0.37), or spelling (ES = 0.56). The impact of teaching reading on writing was maintained over time (ES = 0.37). Having students read text or observe others interact with text also enhanced writing performance, producing a statistically significant impact on an overall measure of writing (ES = 0.35) and specific measures of writing quality (ES = 0.44) or spelling (ES = 0.28). These findings provide support that reading interventions can enhance students’ writing performance.
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Hennequin, C., C. Carrie, S. Hofstetter, F. Dhermain, P. Romestaing, T. Girinsky, J. L. Lagrange, and J. M. Cosset. "Quality control program of radiation therapy in EORTC H8 protocol: The French centers experience." European Journal of Cancer 33 (September 1997): S261—S262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0959-8049(97)86093-5.

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O’Hara, Lyndsay M., Daniel J. Morgan, Lisa Pineles, Shanshan Li, Carol Sulis, Jason Bowling, Marci Drees, et al. "Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?" Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 06 (April 5, 2017): 736–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.27.

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Quality measures are increasingly reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), yet there may be tradeoffs in performance between infection control (IC) and other quality measures. Hospitals that performed best on IC measures did not perform well on most CMS non–IC quality measures. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:736–739
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Zeithaml, Valarie A., Leonard L. Berry, and A. Parasuraman. "Communication and Control Processes in the Delivery of Service Quality." Journal of Marketing 52, no. 2 (April 1988): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002224298805200203.

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Delivering consistently good service quality is difficult but profitable for service organizations. Understanding why it is so difficult and how it might be facilitated is the purpose of the article. The authors' intent is to identify a reasonably exhaustive set of factors potentially affecting the magnitude and direction of four gaps on the marketer's side of their service quality model. Most factors involve (1) communication and control processes implemented in service organizations to manage employees and (2) consequences of these processes, such as role clarity and role conflict of contact personnel. Literature from the marketing and organizational behavior fields on these topics is reviewed and integrated with qualitative data from an exploratory study. Discussion centers on insights that can be obtained from empirical testing of the extended model.
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Emont, Seth L., S. Christine Zahniser, Stephen E. Marcus, Anne E. Trontell, Sherry Mills, Emma L. Frazier, Michael N. Waller, and Gary A. Giovino. "Evaluation of the 1990 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Smoke-Free Policy." American Journal of Health Promotion 9, no. 6 (July 1995): 456–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-9.6.456.

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Purpose. To determine the prevalence of tobacco use among Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) employees and the effect of the smoke-free policy on smoking behavior and air quality at work. Design. A stratified telephone survey of 1181 CDC/ATSDR employees randomly selected from employee rosters. Setting. CDC/ATSDR work sites in Atlanta, Georgia, and other major CDC locations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Subjects. Randomly selected employees of CDC/ATSDR1, or about 22% of the total CDC/ATSDR population; 98% of eligible persons selected agreed to participate. Measures. Demographic and smoking history variables, attitudes toward and impact of the smoke-free policy on smoking behavior, and self-report changes in air quality were the measures used. Results. Overall cigarette smoking prevalence was only 11.1%. One percent reported using chewing tobacco, 1.1% reported smoking a pipe, and 1.4% reported smoking cigars. Average self-reported, daily cigarette comsumption significantly decreased after the smoking ban took effect. Overall, 90 % of the employees supported the smoke-free policy, and 80 % of the employees believed that smokers were complying with the smoke-free policy. Most employees believed that the air quality of work areas and nonwork areas (65% and 69%, respectively) had improved since the smoke-free policy was implemented. Conclusions. These findings are consistent with previous evaluations of smoke-free policies and suggest that most employees are generally supportive of workplace smoking restrictions. Such policies can also have a positive impact on smoking behavior and perceived air quality.
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Pugliese, Gina, and Martin S. Favero. "Cardo Named Director of Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 24, no. 11 (November 2003): 875. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0195941700079078.

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You, Danbi, and Hye-Ja Park. "Effect of Expressive Writing on Professional Quality of Life and Resilience among Intensive Care Unit Nurses." Journal of Health Informatics and Statistics 46, no. 3 (August 31, 2021): 276–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21032/jhis.2021.46.3.276.

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Objectives: This study examined the effect of expressive writing on professional quality of life and resilience among intensive care unit nurses.Methods: Forty nurses stratified by the nursing proficiency career randomly assigned to an writing group (n=17) or a control group (n=23) from a university hospital-affiliated intensive care units. The 5-week expressive writing included a weekly 20 min of expressive writing and 10 min of reflection on the workrelated traumatic events. Outcomes were assessed using questionnaires of a professional quality of life (compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary traumatic stress) and a resilience. Data were analyzed by independent t-test and analysis of covariance.Results: The expressive writing program provided improvements in resilience measure, including measures of situational, philosophical, and professional resilience.Conclusions: Expressive writing might be a useful strategy for enhancing resilience from the stressful work-related traumatic events for nurses working at the intensive care units.
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Shabani Minaabad, Malahat, and Sara Dorani Lomar. "The Effects of Children’s Pedagogical Songs on Social, Linguistic, and Written Skills Development in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders." Journal of Client-centered Nursing Care 6, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 175–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/jccnc.6.3.322.1.

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Background: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) lack sufficient language and writing abilities and experience delays in the development of their social activities. Thus, this study aimed at determining the effects of children’s pedagogical songs on the development of social as well as writing and speaking abilities in children with ASD. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test and a control group design. The study sample consisted of 30 children aged 8-10 years with ASD referring to the Welfare Organization in 2018. The necessary data were collected by the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS) and the Test of Language Development (TOLD). The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics as well as Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and one-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) in Manhwa Text using SPSS. Results: The present research results suggested that rhythmic poetry training was effective on the development of social activities (P<0.01), linguistic skills (P<0.01), and writing abilities (P<0.05) in the explored subjects. Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, poetry therapy increased using appropriate language skills, social skills, and written activities in children with ASD. We suggest implementing this method, as an effective intervention, in schools, health centers, and speech therapy centers for children with ASD.
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Hampshire, Robert C., William A. Massey, and Qiong Wang. "DYNAMIC PRICING TO CONTROL LOSS SYSTEMS WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE TARGETS." Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 23, no. 2 (February 16, 2009): 357–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269964809000205.

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Numerous examples of real-time services arise in the service industry that can be modeled as loss systems. These include agent staffing for call centers, provisioning bandwidth for private line services, making rooms available for hotel reservations, and congestion pricing for parking spaces. Given that arriving customers make their decision to join the system based on the current service price, the manager can use price as a mechanism to control the utilization of the system. A major objective for the manager is then to find a pricing policy that maximizes total revenue while meeting the quality of service targets desired by the customers. For systems with growing demand and service capacity, we provide a dynamic pricing algorithm. A key feature of our solution is congestion pricing. We use demand forecasts to anticipate future service congestion and set the present price accordingly.
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Zhang, Wenjuan. "Effects of the Production-Oriented Approach on EFL Learners’ Writing Performance in China’s Tertiary Education." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 43, no. 3 (September 25, 2020): 323–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2020-0021.

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AbstractThe Production-Oriented Approach (POA) has been proposed as a remedy for overcoming the problem of input-output separation in the traditional text-centered teaching and learning paradigm in tertiary education in China. This two-week quasi-experimental study investigated the effect of the POA, compared with the traditional text-centered Intensive Reading Approach (IRA), on college students’ L2 writing performance in terms of overall quality of the writing and its components of language, idea, and discourse structure. Data included writing samples of both experimental and control groups before and after classroom instruction and the results of a language achievement test on mastery of target language forms predicating students’ language use in writing. The results showed that: 1) no significant difference was found between the two groups either in the overall quality or in the “idea” and “structure” of the written texts; 2) the experimental group outperformed the control group with respect to language use, in terms of both language quality and the frequency of target language use. These results indicated that the POA might have an advantage over the IRA in facilitating learners’ writing development.
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Lawrimore, Jay H., David Wuertz, Anna Wilson, Scott Stevens, Matthew Menne, Bryant Korzeniewski, Michael A. Palecki, Ronald D. Leeper, and Thomas Trunk. "Quality Control and Processing of Cooperative Observer Program Hourly Precipitation Data." Journal of Hydrometeorology 21, no. 8 (August 1, 2020): 1811–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-19-0300.1.

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AbstractThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has operated a network of Fischer & Porter gauges providing hourly and subhourly precipitation observations as part of the U.S. Cooperative Observer Program since the middle of the twentieth century. A transition from punched paper recording to digital recording was completed by NOAA’s National Weather Service in 2013. Subsequently, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) upgraded its quality assurance and data stewardship processes to accommodate the new digital record, better assure the quality of the data, and improve the timeliness by which hourly precipitation observations are made available to the user community. Automated methods for removing noise, detecting diurnal variations, and identifying malfunctioning gauges are described along with quality control algorithms that are applied on hourly and daily time scales. The quality of the hourly observations during the digital era is verified by comparison with hourly observations from the U.S. Climate Reference Network and summary of the day precipitation totals from the Global Historical Climatology Network dataset.
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Fila, Branko, Ramon Roca-Tey, Jan Malik, Marko Malovrh, Nicola Pirozzi, Mariusz Kusztal, Maurizio Gallieni, and Tamara Jemcov. "Quality assessment of vascular access procedures for hemodialysis: A position paper of the Vascular Access Society based on the analysis of existing guidelines." Journal of Vascular Access 21, no. 2 (May 19, 2019): 148–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1129729819848624.

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Quality assessment in vascular access procedures for hemodialysis is not clearly defined. The aim of this article is to compare various guidelines regarding recommendation on quality control in angioaccess surgery. The overall population of end-stage renal disease patients and patients in need for hemodialysis treatment is growing every year. Chronic intermittent hemodialysis is still the main therapy. The formation of a functional angioaccess is the cornerstone in the management of those patients. Native (autologous) arteriovenous fistula is the best vascular access available. A relatively high percentage of primary failure and fistula abandonment increases the need for quality control in this field of surgery. There are very few recommendations of quality assessment on creation of a vascular access for hemodialysis in the searched guidelines. Some guidelines recommend the proportion of native arteriovenous fistula in incident and prevalent patients as well as the maximum tolerable percentage of central venous catheters and complications. According to some guidelines, surgeon’s experience and expertise have a considerable influence on outcomes. There are no specific recommendations regarding surgeon’s specialty, grade, level of skills, and experience. In conclusion, there is a weak recommendation in the guidelines on quality control in vascular access surgery. Quality assessment criteria should be defined in this field of surgery. According to these criteria, patients and nephrologists could choose the best vascular access center or surgeon. Centers with best results should be referral centers, and centers with poorer results should implement quality improvement programs.
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Hanson, Margaret. "The “P's and Q's” of Quality Systems." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 123, no. 7 (July 1, 1999): 576–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/1999-123-0576-tpsaqs.

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Abstract Quality improvement in blood collection centers has been a priority of regulatory and accrediting agencies for the past several years. The Food and Drug Administration and the American Association of Blood Banks have developed guidelines for quality assurance activities. Inspection programs have focused on evaluation of processes and how they are controlled to assure the safety and efficacy of blood components. A review of Food and Drug Administration enforcement actions shows that all such actions cite similar deficiencies related to management control, personnel training, error, and record management policies. A quality program that includes management commitment to compliance and continuous improvement, defined personnel training, internal audit, and error management policies provides documented evidence to management and regulatory agencies that operations are in control.
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Benattar, Laurence, and Georges Flandrin. "Morphometry and Quality Control For a May-Grunwald Giemsa Stained Preparation. A 40 Centers Cooperative Study." Leukemia & Lymphoma 33, no. 5-6 (January 1999): 587–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10428199909058464.

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de Sá, R., N. Teixeira, A. Pascoal, M. Aznar, I. Cardoso, A. R. Coutinho, M. S. B. Pontes, and C. Borges. "1531 poster RADIOSURGERY TREATMENT PLANNING-PROTOCOLS IN USE AND QUALITY CONTROL METRICS IN TWO EUROPEAN CENTERS." Radiotherapy and Oncology 99 (May 2011): S569. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-8140(11)71653-x.

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Karam, Vincent, Bridget Gunson, Francine Roggen, Luis Grande, Wolfgang Wannoff, Magda Janssen, Olaf Guckelberger, et al. "Quality control of the European Liver Transplant Registry: results of audit visits to the contributing centers." Transplantation 75, no. 12 (June 2003): 2167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.tp.0000080271.20145.07.

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Rosenbaum, Matthew W., James G. Flood, Stacy E. F. Melanson, Nikola A. Baumann, Mark A. Marzinke, Alex J. Rai, Joshua Hayden, et al. "Quality Control Practices for Chemistry and Immunochemistry in a Cohort of 21 Large Academic Medical Centers." American Journal of Clinical Pathology 150, no. 2 (May 29, 2018): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqy033.

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Ma, Xin. "Expansion Dynamic Game Analysis on Education Quality Control for Distance Education System." Advanced Materials Research 230-232 (May 2011): 481–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.230-232.481.

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The development of computers and the internet have made distance learning distribution easier and faster and have given rise to the virtual university, the entire educational offerings of which are conducted online. Distance education is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom. It has been described as a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both. How to motivate learning sub-centers to improve education quality has become the focus of the participants’ game. The expansion dynamic tripartite game model was set up and the simulation shows the corresponding results.
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Meletiadou, Eleni. "Opening Pandora’s Box: How Does Peer Assessment Affect EFL Students’ Writing Quality?" Languages 6, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages6030115.

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Recent research has underlined the benefits of peer assessment (PA) as it helps learners write high-quality essays and increases their confidence as writers. In terms of this intervention study, 200 Greek Cypriot EFL learners’ essays (pre- and post-tests) were evaluated taking into consideration four aspects of writing quality after using either PA and teacher assessment (TA) (experimental groups, n = 100 students) or only TA (control groups, n = 100 students) in their writing classes for one year. This is one of the few studies, to the knowledge of the present researcher, which have performed text analysis of so many aspects of writing quality using such a—relatively—large sample (400 essays) in such a challenging setting (secondary education). Learners’ essays were evaluated in terms of accuracy, fluency, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity using Atlas.ti. Findings indicated that learners who received PA and TA improved their essays more in terms of lexical complexity, accuracy, and some features of grammatical complexity and fluency than those who received only TA. The current study highlights the desirability of collaborative group work, in the form of PA activities, in the creation of opportunities conducive to promoting writing quality.
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