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D Marsland

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PubMed1992

Nursing evaluation: purposes, achievements and opportunities.

Evaluation has become a powerful, specialized discipline in recent decades, with its own sophisticated conceptual and technical apparatus. Evaluation of nursing has benefited strongly from these developments, as examples of cogent, recent evaluations demonstrate. Evaluation is already proving an indispensable practical tool for raising the quality of health care, and for advancing professional nursing standards. Nonetheless, there is room for further improvement. Neglected areas of nursing should be brought under the spotlight of evaluation, conceptual and methodological rigour should be strengthened, and training in research skills should be extended.

Clinical Protocols↗
PubMed1986

Denominator definition by the utilization correction factor method.

Most clinical research in the United States has been carried out in atypical populations. This study, done in a network of primary care populations in Virginia, calculates the denominator by the utilization correction factor method and compares the demography with that of the population of the state. The demographic characteristics of the patients in the network are very similar to those of the underlying populations and on the same order of state-of-the-art sampling methods in current use.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

A systems approach to patient care, curriculum, and research in family practice.

The system of data recording and retrieval which defines a family practice population of patients is described. It is organized at two levels, as a series of manual instruments or as a single instrument used as data input to a computer. Depending on resources available, it is possible to record demographic and morbidity data from the patient populations of both teaching and nonteaching practices. Data have been collected from a patient population of 88,000 in 26 practicing sites in Virginia, totaling 380,000 diagnostic and follow-up visits. Presentations are made of some of this data. The costs of this recording process in nonteaching practices, the use of such data as an educational resource for the training of primary care physicians, and the evaluations of health care delivered are discussed.

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