An NQA DNS test instance measures the speed at which an NQA client sends UDP packets to resolve a specified DNS name to an IP address.Figure 19-42shows the DNS test process. Device A (source end) sends a DNS request packet to the DNS server, requesting the DNS server to resolve a spe...
This article uses a combination of process and development data, as well as outcome data to understand which process measure correlated with positive outcome measures. A complete table of metric descriptions can be found in the Supplemental Table 3. These data provide insights into the development ...
A statistical summary of a dataset consists of a set of measures (such as the average, minimum, and maximum) taken for every metric in a dataset. A statistical summary of a dataset is a good quality assurance check on your data and can alert you to conditions for which you need to ad...
In 2022, the MSSPgeneratedsavings and high-quality performance results for the sixth consecutive year. The program saved Medicare $1.8 billion, with 63 percent of ACOs earning shared savings payments. In addition, ACOs performed better on quality measures related to diabetes and blood pressure cont...
Normative measures act as operations of power. Butler (1999: xxii) describes a normative account of gender as judgements made on acceptable and unacceptable expressions of gender. Williams (1992) further clarifies how "negative stereotypes about men who do 'women's work' can push men out of ...
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(Fig.1-7). The analysis below walks the reader through the model until the last proposed approach, which measures intensities of (im)mobility aspirations, is outlined in Fig.6. The starting point of the model is that, as others have noted before, migration aspirations arise when migration ...
Table 1 Implementation strategies to improve acute stroke care measures Full size table Step 2: causal pathway model We defined the mechanism of action of each implementation strategy as the intervention function that emerged from qualitative coding of interviews. We then built causal pathway models by...
Unlike some other core measures, where CMS makes a decision to track and publicly report in a rapid fashion, this measure has been in the works for several years. Even so, since the Rivers article came out in 2001, controversy over the sepsis bundle and in particular the central venous lin...
We also included measures of MA market structure: the number of MA contract options in the individual’s county of residence, the mean Medigap premium, and the mean Part D premium (all variables in dollar terms were inflation adjusted to 2020 dollars). Finally, we included the mean ...