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Promoting Interoperability and Quality Payment Programs
Published in Salvatore Volpe, Health Informatics, 2022
Anantachai (Tony) Panjamapirom, Naomi Levinthal, Ye Hoffman
In 2017, the Quality performance category reporting period was any continuous 90-day period. For all subsequent years, CMS has required a full calendar year reporting period for this category. Each Quality measure is assessed against peer benchmarks segmented into deciles. In general, each measure is worth up to 10 points, and the better the performance, the better the score an EC or group will earn.
Inequalities in health
Published in Sally Robinson, Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health, 2021
Sally Robinson, Athene Lane-Martin, Elisabetta Corvo
Life expectancy also varies according to whether someone lives in a more, or less, deprived area. Deprivation includes lower incomes, higher unemployment, lower skills and educational attainment, higher rates of premature deaths and lower quality of life, more crime, poor access to housing and services and a poor-quality indoor and outdoor environment (Ministry of HCLG, 2019). The Office of National Statistics (2018a) divided both England and Wales, separately, into 10 divisions, deciles, based on greater and lesser deprivation. Each decile represents 10% of the population. They compared the least deprived areas with the most deprived areas. In England, males born in the least deprived areas could expect to live 9.3 years longer, and females 7.4 years longer, than those born in the most deprived areas.In Wales, males born in the least deprived areas could expect to live 8.9 years longer, and females 7.3 years longer, than those born in the most deprived areas.When the Office of National Statistics estimated healthy life expectancy, that is years lived in very good or good health, they found a gap between the least and most deprived areas of more than 18 years for people in England and more than 17 years for those in Wales.
Processing of Data
Published in Abhaya Indrayan, Research Methods for Medical Graduates, 2019
Quartiles, tertiles, and deciles are special percentiles. Twenty-fifth, 50th, and 75th percentiles are called first, second, and third quartiles, respectively, because they divide total subjects into four groups of equal size. Tenth, 20th, etc., percentiles are called deciles because they divide the subjects in 10 equal groups. If a man’s height is 188 cm, he may be in the top decile; that is, less than 10% of men will be as tall as that or taller. Tertiles are the points that divide the group into three equal parts. Choose the one that is most appropriate for your research.
Motivational Interviewing Produces Change Talk in Smokers with Serious Mental Illness
Published in Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 2021
Benjamin E. Billingsley, Marc L. Steinberg
When raters listened to session tapes, session length was determined by a cassette tape counter. They then divided the tape’s total count by ten to determine the length of one decile. For example, if a final session count was 590, each decile would be composed of 59 counts (590/10); for example, decile 1 would correspond to count 0–59, decile 2 count 60–118, etc. To calculate total proportion of CT, each utterance of CT was noted, summed and divided by total number of CT and ST utterances (Glynn & Moyers, 2012), as shown below. To calculate proportion of CT in the tenth decile, each utterance of CT in the tenth decile was noted, summed and divided by total number of CT and ST utterances in the tenth decile, as shown below.
Kaleidoscopic associations between life outside home and the technological environment that shape occupational injustice as revealed through cross-sectional statistical modelling
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2021
Sarah Wallcook, Louise Nygård, Anders Kottorp, Sophie Gaber, Georgina Charlesworth, Camilla Malinowsky
The MoCA was used for its sensitivity in detecting early cognitive deficits in order to describe differences between the cognitive abilities of the participants (Nasreddine et al., 2005). A non-standardised demographic questionnaire was designed to collect information about a range of contextual factors that might reasonably influence ET use and the number of places people go to. These included age, gender, co-morbidities and functional impairments, driving, education, and co-habitation. Postcodes were used to obtain an urban or rural categorisation for the small geographical output area each participant lived in (Bibby & Brindley, 2013) and an index of multiple deprivation (IMD) decile. Decile 1 represents the most deprived 10 per cent of areas nationally and decile 10, the least deprived 10 per cent of areas nationally, with England divided into 32,844 small areas (Department for Communities and Local Government, 2015).
Do patients or their physicians more accurately assess long-term risk associated with hypertension? A population-based study
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2020
Mikael Hoffmann, Peter M. Nilsson, Johan Ahlner, Björn Dahllöf, Mats Fredrikson, Roger Säljö, Karin I. Kjellgren
The patients were stratified in deciles depending on the risk assessment for the four outcomes studied. The stratification was done separately for the assessments by the patients and their physicians. A patient could thus be in separate deciles for the assessments by patients and physicians, respectively. Assessments with the same numerical value were placed in the lower corresponding decile by STATA version 14.1, StataCorp. The average outcomes for patients in each decile (as assessed by patients or physicians) were identified. Z-test was used to compare proportions. Linear regression analysis was used to estimate the association between patient and physician regarding the overall 10-year mortality. In addition, we used logistic regression to compare the actual outcome depending on the estimated 10-year probability in deciles. A p-value of 0.05 was considered significant. Stata MP version 14.1, StataCorp LLC, College Station, TX, USA was used for all statistical analysis.