The "process measures" used on Hospital Compare, a compendium of Medicare data on hospital quality intended to help patients choose the best hospitals, may not correlate with mortality rates or ...
The Census Bureau has just published the results from its new alternative measure of poverty, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, and they differ notably from the poverty rates shown by the ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday added new measures to its compare websites for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term hospital stays. CMS' compare sites list the ...
TOKYO & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The SanBio Group (SanBio Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, SanBio, Inc. of Mountain View, California, US, and SanBio Asia ...
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 19, Special issue on Demographic aspects of human wellbeing (2021), pp. 67-90 (26 pages) Subjective well-being (SWB) is an overall evaluation of the ...
Motivation: Frequently, comparing samples from two populations is of interest. For example, is the average height in the US different from that in China? If they are different, how different? Goal: In ...
To compare energy expenditure (EE) measured by doubly labeled water (DLW) with other measures, both physical and based on subjective questionnaires. EE was assessed by DLW (validated using ...
In an attempt to refine the validity of the Gurin Mental Status Index, a group of 132 expatients living in the community were assessed with this instrument and two others, the Psychiatric Evaluation ...
Editor’s note: This is the last story in a four-part series looking at Eureka’s Fair Wage Act, known as Measure R, which will be on the city’s Nov. 4 General Election ballot. The first article was an ...