• This micro-data file contains data collected in the 1997 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). (cdc.gov)
  • Once the Santiago de Cuba epidemic was detected in In 1994, after 17 years of absence, Nicaragua, Panama, January 1997 (5,8,9), an active dengue surveillance system and Costa Rica reported the reintroduction of dengue 3 was established throughout the country. (cdc.gov)
  • of 0.05 to 0.91 were reported from 1997 to 2001. (cdc.gov)
  • and 2) state child blood lead surveillance data for test results collected during 1997--2001. (cdc.gov)
  • 10 µg/dL steadily decreased from 130,512 in 1997 to 74,887 in 2001. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1997, a dengue 2 epidemic was reported shows the total number of serum samples studied from in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba, located in the 1997 to 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • The NAMCS is a national probability sample survey conducted by the Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (cdc.gov)
  • In 1997, a total of 24,715 Patient Record forms were received from the 1,247 physicians who participated in the NAMCS. (cdc.gov)
  • Only visits to the offices of nonfederally employed physicians classified by the American Medical Association (AMA) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) as 'office-based, patient care' were included in the 1997 NAMCS. (cdc.gov)
  • The 1997 NAMCS sample included 2,498 physicians: 2,298 Medical Doctors and 200 Doctors of Osteopathy. (cdc.gov)
  • To examine the risk of stroke in relation to quality of hypertension control in routine general practice across an entire health district. (bmj.com)
  • For each case two controls matched with the case for age and sex were selected from the same practice register. (bmj.com)
  • In routine practice consistent control of blood pressure to below 150/90 mm Hg seems to be required for optimal stroke prevention. (bmj.com)
  • PURPOSE We wanted to describe the emerging role of primary care practice-based in research, quality improvement (QI), and translation of research into practice (TRIP). (annfammed.org)
  • Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are challenging traditional distinctions between research and quality improvement (QI), emphasizing the importance of linking discovery and application, research and practice. (annfammed.org)
  • The LTPP program continues to develop and distribute its data, knowledge, and software tools to improve understanding of pavement performance, the quality of pavement research, and industry practice. (dot.gov)
  • It involves them in a series of meetings to learn about best practice in the area chosen, about quality methods and change ideas, and to share their experiences of making changes in their own local setting. (bmj.com)
  • cations for TB control practice. (cdc.gov)
  • We evaluated the quality of the information on the treatment of depression (including comparison with evidence based guidelines and meta-analyses) and the relation between content quality and accountability indicators and other site characteristics. (bmj.com)
  • Guidelines for drinking-water quality. (who.int)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • I'm William Koehne and I'm representing the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, COCA, with the Emergency Risk Communication Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The included prescription and Centers for Disease Control and number of Patient Record forms nonprescription preparations, Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Epidemiologic data for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is limited, particularly for racial/ethnic subpopulations in the United States (U.S.). Leveraging data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Lupus Registry network of population-based SLE registries, a meta-analysis estimating U.S. SLE prevalence was performed. (cdc.gov)
  • In modern quality control systems, the width of these data boxes can be changed, and accurate profiles can be formed using several thousands profile data boxes. (wikipedia.org)
  • 10 µg/dL will require intensified efforts to target areas at highest risk, evaluate preventive measures, and improve the quality of surveillance data. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC will work with state and local programs to improve tracking systems and the collection, timeliness, and quality of surveillance data. (cdc.gov)
  • This data set includes data collected in October 1997 over the Sacramento, CA, floodplain. (noaa.gov)
  • The basic assumption in standard applications of control charts is that observed data from the process are independent and identically distributed. (iwaponline.com)
  • In this study, a special cause control (SCC) chart, also called a chart of residuals from the fitted ARIMA model, has been used for turbidity and pH data from a drinking water treatment plant in Samsun, Turkey. (iwaponline.com)
  • The results showed that the SCC chart is more appropriate for autocorrelated data to evaluate the stability of the water treatment process, since it provides a higher probability of coverage than an individual control chart. (iwaponline.com)
  • The presence of an assignable variation is an indicator of an out-of-control situation, and is characterized by non-randomness in the data. (iwaponline.com)
  • LTPP data analysis has also led to many innovations and tools that pavement researchers and engineers are using to advance pavement quality and durability. (dot.gov)
  • It would do this by opening several two-dimensional arrays with gridding corresponding to available source materials, prioritizing source data by quality, developing blending methods where appropriate, then mosaicking and documenting the best possible grid as GLOBE Version 1.0. (noaa.gov)
  • Such an agency should also be charged with creating and facilitating programs to ensure actual access to dental care (as opposed to providing only surface-level insurance coverage) and with collecting data on oral health to monitor accessibility, quality of care and use of available care, among other things. (irpp.org)
  • Also included in these documents are recommendations for personal protective equipment and clothing, work practices, engineering controls, hazard notification, medical surveillance, and recordkeeping. (cdc.gov)
  • Vol. 3, Surveillance and control of community supplies. (who.int)
  • In this review, we will thus discuss the influence of postharvest treatment on strawberry postharvest shelf life and quality management during storage conditions. (intechopen.com)
  • It is essential to carry out total health risk assessment in the safety management of drinking water quality. (scirp.org)
  • Results revealed that the quality of water obtained from sampling points is generally good to use for different domestic purposes except the Idanta River and Rwembwe borehole, which need an appropriate treatment before use. (scirp.org)
  • Using a combination of biophysical methods as well as cell and ovary culture experiments we explain how TAp63α is kept inactive in the absence of DNA damage but causes rapid oocyte elimination in response to a few DNA double strand breaks thereby acting as the key quality control factor in maternal reproduction. (elifesciences.org)
  • Research into effectiveness is a valuable resource for improving health care, but health care has been slow to implement changes and to make use of new methods of quality improvement. (bmj.com)
  • ABSTRACT Using the Hypertension Health Status Inventory and multivariate analysis, predictors of quality of life were determined for a random selection of 316 hypertensive patients. (who.int)
  • The independent predictors explained 25%-30% of the variation in the quality of life of hypertensive patients. (who.int)
  • The study highlights the role of achieving blood pressure control to ensure a better quality of life for hypertensive patients. (who.int)
  • In the absence of editorial controls, however, the information may be of low quality and potentially harmful. (bmj.com)
  • Controlling for the effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors and existing co-morbidity, a better quality of life was independently predicted by achieving a controlled blood pressure and absence of target organ complications. (who.int)
  • After intensive vector control efforts, no new cases have health care system, and 23 hospitals comprise the second been detected. (cdc.gov)
  • The web represents an unprecedented opportunity to provide high quality, accessible healthcare information to consumers and health providers. (bmj.com)
  • In an influential paper Silberg et al proposed that accountability standards (disclosure of authorship, ownership, and currency of information) may be useful indicators of the quality of web based health information. (bmj.com)
  • Moreover, there have been few systematic studies of the actual quality of the content of health information on the web, 6-9 and these studies have typically used textbook summaries 5 or author opinion 8 as the gold standard for assessing content quality rather than meta-analyses of the available evidence. (bmj.com)
  • 10 Finally, no published studies have systematically evaluated the quality of mental health websites even though mental disorders are a common cause of disability and the World Health Organisation has predicted that depression will be the second largest cause of disability within 20 years. (bmj.com)
  • World Health Organization Geneva, 1997 The International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) is a joint venture of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Health Organization. (inchem.org)
  • The main objective of the IPCS is to carry out and disseminate evaluations of the effects of chemicals on human health and the quality of the environment. (inchem.org)
  • High quality drinking water refers to esthetically appealing water that is free of both pathogens (disease causing organisms) and chemical contaminants that have been known to cause undesirable health effects. (iwaponline.com)
  • Water is a precious resource in California, and maintaining its quality is of utmost importance to safeguard the health of the public and the environment. (ca.gov)
  • Most are less likely to die from common infec- research in this area is in the form of clini- tious diseases, the focus of health care in- cal trials of individual drugs, focusing on creasingly shifts towards the prevention how blood pressure can be controlled in a and control of chronic disorders. (who.int)
  • select 1 health insurance polyclinic from Regardless of the type of condition, pa- each zone and 1 internal medicine clinic tients' quality of life is adversely affected from each polyclinic. (who.int)
  • Quality improvement collaboratives are increasingly being used in many countries to achieve rapid improvements in health care. (bmj.com)
  • One such method is a quality improvement collaborative 1- , 4 which develops the abilities of practitioners to use this research to plan and test local changes in health care. (bmj.com)
  • Many quality criteria have been suggested to filter out potentially harmful online health information. (jmir.org)
  • Through the health risk degree assessment of drinking water source, the comprehensive conclusion of water source quality, which is represented by the risk degree of health hazard, can be got directly. (scirp.org)
  • Act No. CLIV of 1997 on health. (ecolex.org)
  • a critical analysis of WHO's leadership role in international health by the Task Force on Health in Development", was made available during regional committee meetings in September and October 1997 as a first step in ensuring wide dissemination of the conclusions of the task force on strengthening WHO in the next century. (who.int)
  • Health Hazard Evaluations/Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance (HETA) reports are the result of the NIOSH hazard evaluation and technical assistance program which provides, upon request, medical, nursing, and industrial hygiene technical and consultative assistance to Federal, state, and local agencies, labor, industry, and other groups or individuals to control occupational health hazards and to prevent related trauma and disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Three weeks after Haiyan, the Philippine Department of Health (DOH), together with WHO, organized two National Water Quality Monitoring Teams to undertake a rapid assessment of drinking-water quality in priority areas. (who.int)
  • In 2007 Ms. Budd left CDC and spent six years with the John Hopkins Hospital in the Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control Department and two years at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services working on healthcare quality initiatives. (cdc.gov)
  • The guideline score correlated with the two other quality of content measures, but none of the content measures correlated with the Silberg accountability score. (bmj.com)
  • Criteria Documents that address processes or operations may not contain new REL's but do contain recommended work practices and control measures. (cdc.gov)
  • Chapter III contains detailed rules regarding disaster recovering organs under the control of the minister and their tasks. (ecolex.org)
  • edge is available about other factors that clinicians place the emphasis on biomedical could contribute to the improvement of hy- outcome or improvement in physiological pertensive patients' quality of life. (who.int)
  • The susceptibility of strawberry fruit to postharvest diseases and decline of quality attributes increases after harvest and through extended storage, and as a consequence changes in physiological and biochemical parameters. (intechopen.com)
  • The results indicate that the evaluation of the digital image by Digora for Windows 1.5.1 software is efficient and allows the quality control of the radiographic processing properly, showing that the variation of the grey levels indicate the consuming of action of the processing solutions. (bvsalud.org)
  • According to Thorogood & Horner 1 , the inadequate processing of the radiographic film results in a radiographic image of low quality confirmed by the excessive number of repetition of examinations and also contributing for the increasing of the x-ray exposure for the patient. (bvsalud.org)
  • Furthermore, Results --During 1997, an estimated 77.0 million visits were made to hospital hospital ambulatory patients are known outpatient departments in the United States, an overall rate of 28.9 per 100 persons. (cdc.gov)
  • The comparison between conventional and online spirometries was performed on intention to treat and per protocol bases for spirometric values and quality criteria. (ersjournals.com)
  • All registries used the 1997 revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for the SLE case definition. (cdc.gov)
  • Assessing accuracy and quality of CAM Web sites poses unique challenges as there is less documented research on the efficacy of CAM products, yet use is common and the potential for harm remains. (jmir.org)
  • Conventional spirometry had a higher percentage of patients with spirometric quality criteria although the quality criteria difference was only 5.9%, when both procedures were the first to start. (ersjournals.com)
  • A quality control system (QCS) refers to a system used to measure and control the quality of moving sheet processes on-line as in the paper produced by a paper machine. (wikipedia.org)
  • and (iii) accountability-conformity with core accountability standards (Silberg score) and quality of evidence cited in support of conclusions (level of evidence score). (bmj.com)
  • Neither the number of antihypertensive drugs received nor the dose frequency affected patients' quality of life. (who.int)
  • Those fairly well controlled (140-149 mm Hg), moderately controlled (150-159 mm Hg), or poorly controlled (!160 mm Hg) or untreated had progressively raised odds ratios of 1.6, 2.2, 3.2, and 3.5 respectively. (bmj.com)
  • To evaluate quality of web based information on treatment of depression, to identify potential indicators of content quality, and to establish if accountability criteria are indicators of quality. (bmj.com)
  • Content quality was superior for sites owned by organisations and sites with an editorial board. (bmj.com)
  • 2 These accountability criteria have been widely assumed to reflect website quality, 3-5 but their validity as indicators of quality of content have not been investigated. (bmj.com)
  • The purpose of this study is to determine whether domain-independent technical quality criteria can identify potentially harmful online CAM content. (jmir.org)
  • The presence of technical quality criteria as well as potentially harmful statements (commissions) and vital information that should have been mentioned (omissions) was recorded. (jmir.org)
  • We found no relationship between technical quality criteria and potentially harmful information. (jmir.org)
  • Current technical quality criteria do not identify potentially harmful CAM information online. (jmir.org)
  • If, on the other hand, currently available quality criteria cannot identify potentially harmful information, then we should caution consumers and work on finding other ways of identifying problematic information online. (jmir.org)
  • QCS is used in paper machines, board machines, tissue machines, pulp drying machines, and other plastic or metal film processes In modern systems QCS applications can be embedded to distributed control systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Water treatment processes are required to be in statistical control and capable of meeting drinking water specifications. (iwaponline.com)
  • Generally, a control system is concerned with measurement and control of one or multiple properties in time in a single dimension. (wikipedia.org)
  • A basic quality measurement system generally includes basis weight and moisture profile measurements and in addition average basis weight of the paper web and moisture control related to these variables. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of all visits made to hospital outpatient departments in 1997, 34.1 percent medical aspects (1). (cdc.gov)
  • A third survey, the outpatient department visits during 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • NHAMCS is part of annual estimates of hospital outpatient the ambulatory component of the department visits for 1997. (cdc.gov)
  • worldwide, in interrelation of these factors, anthropologists and fact, one third of the increase in new TB cases in other social scientists have made important contri- the last 5 years can be attributed to HIV (WHO, butions toward the control of TB. (cdc.gov)
  • 1997. Hydrology Water Quantity and Quality Control. (ajdesigner.com)
  • The main objectives are to understand and evaluate the water quantity and quality in order to provide water of appropriate quality to various water users. (scirp.org)
  • A collaborative brings together groups of practitioners from different healthcare organisations to work in a structured way to improve one aspect of the quality of their service. (bmj.com)
  • Hamrol , A. (1997): Intelligent System for Quality Control in Manufacturing. (interaction-design.org)
  • After this, DOH and WHO organized training, provided portable test kits and developed a monitoring system to strengthen the capacity of local government units (LGUs) and to establish a system capable of managing and monitoring water quality at the LGU level - a situation that did not exist before Typhoon Haiyan. (who.int)
  • World Surfaris is a global surf travel brand, delivering hand-picked surf charters and island adventures since 1997. (worldsurfaris.com)
  • World Surfaris is a trusted and established brand founded on the East Coast of Australia, delivering authentic surfing experiences around the world, since 1997. (worldsurfaris.com)
  • 1997). the world. (who.int)
  • Although the sites contained useful information, their overall quality was poor: the mean guideline, issues, and global scores were only 4.7 (range 0-13) out of 43, 9.8 (6-14) out of 17, and 3 (0.5-7.5) out of 10 respectively. (bmj.com)
  • In the United States, active TB is tural issues pertinent to TB control. (cdc.gov)
  • There is a need for better evidence based information about depression on the web, and a need to reconsider the role of accountability criteria as indicators of site quality and to develop simple valid indicators of quality. (bmj.com)
  • Quality criteria that consider the uniqueness of CAM must be developed and validated. (jmir.org)
  • Many quality criteria have been suggested to help consumers identify misleading, inaccurate, or harmful information. (jmir.org)
  • Objective quality criteria that offer a limited number of options are particularly promising since they are easier to assess. (jmir.org)
  • She joined CDC in 1997 and worked in the National Vaccine Office on Adult Immunization and Pandemic Influenza Planning. (cdc.gov)
  • Monitoring and control are indispensable actions for ensuring the production of high quality drinking water. (iwaponline.com)
  • Identification of required emergency procedures, systems and provisions in place to deal with events resulting from raw materials control failure. (hse.gov.uk)
  • This descriptive study reports on an assessment of water quality in drinking-water supply systems in areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan immediately following and 10 months after the typhoon. (who.int)
  • Water quality testing and risk assessments of the drinking-water systems were conducted three weeks and 10 months post-Haiyan. (who.int)
  • Poor water quality can be prevented or reduced by developing and implementing a water safety plan for the systems. (who.int)