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1. Dementia-Nursing-Home-Characteristics Executive (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2012 - Structures of care are attributes of the setting, including physical characteristics (“bricks and … Organizational characteristics, structures, and processes of care could either be those inherent to … Structures of Care One RCT found no effect for lighting interventions on sleep quality, and another … Structures of Care With one exception, quality of life did not differ based on many structures of care … Only two studies focused on structures of care.

2. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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   November 03, 2011 -  Structures of care. … Question 1 What is the effectiveness of organizational characteristics, structures, or processes of … Question 3 What is the effectiveness of organizational characteristics, structures, or processes of … Question 5 Does the effect of organizational characteristics, structures, or processes of care on … Examples of comparisons of combinations of certain organizational characteristics, structures, and

3. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Executive (pdf file)
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   July 01, 2012 - result in improvements in the quality of health care (including improvements in health care delivery structures … Objective 2: Key Question 3 Does public reporting lead to change in health care delivery structures … Changes in health care delivery structures and processes, including quality improvement activities … Key Question 3: Does public reporting lead to change in health care delivery structures or processes … care (2) Moderate Key Question 3 Does public reporting lead to change in health care delivery structures

4. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparison of Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Other Residential Long-Term Care Settings for People With Dementia (pdf file)
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   October 23, 2012 - TEP Reviewer #1 Executive Summary line 40: Processes or structures would also include special … significant gap in the eligible evidence regarding the influence of organizational characteristics, structures … Our review did not look at “dementia care”, but instead at organizational characteristics, structures … The analytic framework conveys that the relationship of organizational characteristics, structures, … overall, I found the organization of content using key points for organizational characteristics, structures

5. Monitoring-Programs-Rapid-Research-Appendix-C (xls file)
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   May 31, 2025 - needed, product volumes required to support care delivery, and supply distribution Existing expertise, structures … , and relationships 1) Provincial emergency management plans, communication, and governance structures

6. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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   November 01, 2009 - Generally, the harms or complications observed were sustained in structures (extraneous to the tumors … This can be a very important advantage for specific tumors that are anatomically adjacent to critical structures

7. Public-Reporting-Quality-Improvement Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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   August 17, 2011 - result in improvements in the quality of health care (including improvements in health care delivery structures … Questions for Objective 2 Question 3 Does public reporting lead to change in health care delivery structures … Changes in health care delivery structures and processes. … change processes (e.g., adopt guidelines, change policies, increase quality improvement efforts) or structures … providers, engagement in care) Intermediate Outcomes: Changes in health care– delivery structures

8. Noninvasive Diagnostic Techniques for the Detection of Skin Cancers (pdf file)
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   December 01, 2014 - Neither of these devices is designed to delineate specific cellular and subcellular structures. … Dermoscopy Dermoscopy shows subsurface structures of the skin with the use of handheld devices that … Polarized contact dermoscopy can attain the images of vascular and other deeper structures, and is a … The uniqueness of CSLM lies in its imaging of not only the epidermis, but also underlying structures … In reflectance CSLM, laser-illuminated tissue structures and melanin reflect light toward the confocal

9. Radiotherapy-Proton-Beam Research (pdf file)
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   May 01, 2012 - Agreement is strongest for the use of proton radiotherapy for (1) tumors surrounded by critical structures … for solid tumors in children because it minimizes detrimental effects of radiation on developing structures … radiotherapy, proton beam therapy may play an important role in treating tumors surrounded by critical structures

10. Radiotherapy Treatments for Head and Neck Cancer (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2015 - the individual patient given the type, location, and stage of the cancer �� Whether critical normal structures

11. CER 174 Executive Summary: Imaging for the Pretreatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2016 - Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is a bronchoscopic technique utilizing ultrasonography to visualize structures … whereas endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is an endoscopic technique that uses ultrasonography to visualize structures … Metastases to Osseous Structures (Bone or Bone Marrow) Three moderate risk-of-bias studies reported … data on the accuracy of imaging tests to determine whether patients had metastases to osseous structures … PET/CT; 1 study, n=28 Standard staging* only; 1 study, n=25 Presence of metastases to osseous structures

12. DEMENTIA INCLUDING ALZHEIMER'S #04 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2013 - Much research into AD’s causes has focused on two hallmark structures found in the brains of patients … metabolism in the central nervous system by mediating glucose uptake in cells, are co-located in brain structures … metabolism in the central nervous system by mediating glucose uptake in cells, are colocated in brain structures

13. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2009 - Generally, the harms or complications observed were sustained in structures (extraneous to the tumors … This can be a very important advantage for specific tumors that are anatomically adjacent to critical structures … Photon radiotherapy results in larger unnecessary radiation dose to normal structures compared to particle … of the head and neck (brain tumors, and tumors arising from skull base, cervical spine and nearby structures … Generally, the harms/complications observed were sustained in structures (extraneous to the tumors)

14. Evidence Summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 255: Transitions of Care From Pediatric to Adult Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2022 - patients and their families for transitioning CSHCN to adult care vary considerably in their components, structures

15. Intergrated and Comprehensive Pain Management Programs: Effectiveness and Harms: Evidence Summary (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2021 - There was little evidence to evaluate the impact of specific program structures, components, or their

16. Palliative radiation therapy for bone metastases: Update of an ASTRO Evidence-Based Guideline (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2017 - or prevention of morbidity from uncomplicated bone metastasis involving the spine or other critical structures … or prevention of morbidity from uncomplicated bone metastasis involving the spine or other critical structures … treatment of vertebral bones and surrounding paraspinal areas with relative sparing of adjacent neural structures … caution given the absence of a physical separation between the target and adjacent normal critical structures

17. Ch-7-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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    March 29, 2012 - confounding by covariate adjustment is referred to as M-collider bias.36 Pure pretreatment M-type structures … Such structures do, however, arise more commonly in the analysis of social network data.38 Compelling … We have presented multiple types of variable structures, with a focus on variables that either remove … Adjustment for All Possible Risk Factors for the Outcome Confounding pathways require common cause structures

18. The Facilitation Primer: Strategies, Tools & Considerations to Get You Started (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - The role of a facilitator is to focus on effective processes and structures so that meeting participants … Assertiveness Focus Enthusiasm Use of active listening Sense of humor Effective processes and structures

19. Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons for Stakeholder Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (pdf file)
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    May 29, 2025 - idea that it’s not just the relationships that you work on in building trust but it’s also in the structures … that you set up, and as Madeleine so nicely put in the structures of her research question establishing … You have to build in the structures of participation, not just the good relationships. … for people to be apart of the actual research process plays a key role when you’re looking at power structures … We need to do our job better as university people and university structures to reframe our way of doing

20. Executive summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 264_Social and Structural Determinants of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: An Evidence Map (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2023 - Executive summary_Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 264_Social and Structural Determinants of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: An Evidence Map Comparative Effectiveness Review Number 264 Social and Structural Determinants of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: An Evidence Map Executive Summary Main Points …