Quality Data Collection HCS/588 February 13, 2012 Pam Crocker Quality Data Collection Quality is considered a vague concept that can be subjective and unscientific. However, quality can become a definitive concept by collecting and analyzing data. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) evidence based measures defines quality of care. For example, administering aspirin for acute myocardial infarction patients, making sure that pneumonia patients receive antibiotics in a timely manner
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It should detail your home measurements, your chosen interior design theme, and the furniture you need to buy. And don’t forget to plan your living arrangements during the home remodeling
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Measuring food by the mile How much of your dinner tonight will have been grown locally? And how much will have travelled several hundred miles - even several thousand miles - to reach your table? Measuring food miles is a complex task but, reports Tim Lobstein, the results make disturbing reading. Living Earth and The Food Magazine An analysis of the materials needed to produce our food can be startling. Ten litres of orange juice needs a litre of diesel fuel for processing
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Narrative Starbuck’s is one of the most profitable coffee businesses in the country. Their supply chain consist of the raw material, the coffee bean, which is transferred into a liquid drink for consumers. The coffee process starts with the landowner who has the farmland that contains coffee trees. The coffee trees are harvested for about eight to nine months (depending) before the “cherries” are picked. The cherries can be hand picked which can be very labor intensive for farmers or stripped
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Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress Professor Joseph E. STIGLITZ, Chair, Columbia University Professor Amartya SEN, Chair Adviser, Harvard University Professor Jean-Paul FITOUSSI, Coordinator of the Commission, IEP www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr Other Members Bina AGARWAL Kenneth J. ARROW Anthony B. ATKINSON François BOURGUIGNON Jean-Philippe COTIS Angus S. DEATON Kemal DERVIS Marc FLEURBAEY Nancy FOLBRE Jean GADREY Enrico GIOVANNINI Roger
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Community Regional Health Assisted Living Facility Expansion Project Table of Contents Project Charter 3 Project Scope Statement 7 Risk Register 10 Scheduling and Milestone Identification 14 Work Breakdown Structure 16 Cost Management Overview 17 Project Budget 21 References 24 Project Charter The project charter often intertwined with the project plan, “is the document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the proper
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Measuring the Impact of Social Programs: A Review of Best Practices Lesley Sept, Sandra Naylor, Randy Weston February 9, 2011 Introduction The question of how to measure the impact of a global corporation’s social efforts can seem almost unmanageable. The facets of influence seem to multiply
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Hatten My overall topic for my research project is Commuting, Transportation Spending and Urban Sprawl. The purpose of this project is to design a research study to determine and clarify what effect urban sprawl has on private-vehicle commuting costs and household expenditures. Let us first look at the definition of sprawl. There is no universally accepted definition although there have numerous attempts to institute a unified definition of this multifaceted concept. Sprawl is defined as low-density
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Gross National Income (GNI) The yardstick for measuring economic activity of a country, this measures the total annual income of a nation's residents. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) An adjustment in gross domestic product per capita to reflect differences in the cost of living. Human Development Index (HDI) An attempt by the UN to assess the impact of a number of factors on the quality of human life in a country. Innovation Development of new products, processes, organizations, management
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marine life. (Johnson 2014) The primary contributor to the increased levels of oceanic acidity is human activity. Human activity has made great leaps in the quality of its life over the past two hundred years, but our advancements seem to have come at a cost: the loss of biodiversity in the oceans. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, there has been an enormous increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere (Johnson 2014). The ocean absorbs more than a third of CO2 from the atmosphere
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