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Hospital Value-Based Purchasing and Trauma-Certified Hospital Performance

Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2019
ABSTRACT Introduction: Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) is an initiative that rewards acute-care hospitals with incentive payments for the quality of care they provide. A hospital's trauma certification has the potential to influence HVBP scores as attaining the certification provides indication of the service ...
Spaulding, Aaron, Hamadi, Hanadi, Martinez, Luis, Martin, Timothy, Purnell, Justin M., Zhao, Mei   +5 more
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Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains

2012
Globalization and trade liberalization have not provided income, security, and support to ensure improved livelihoods for all. Poverty reduction policies that were based on the overly simplistic assumption that expanding economic growth would reduce poverty have not always proved to be correct (KIT Factsheet, 2007). From an estimated one billion people
Rhiannon Pyburn, Noortje Verhart
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Certifying feasibility and objective value of linear programs

Operations Research Letters, 2012
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Althaus, Ernst, Dumitriu, Daniel
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Calculating uncertainty for certified values for reference specimens

Measurement Techniques, 2007
Basic sources are given for uncertainty in certified values for standard specimens. Methods are given for estimating those values and algorithms for calculating their standard, total, and expanded uncertainties.
D. P. Nalobin, E. V. Osintseva
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Perceived Value of Certification Among Certified, Noncertified, and Administrative Perioperative Nurses

Journal of Professional Nursing, 2006
This study was designed to determine similarities and differences in perceived value of certification among three groups of perioperative nurses. Responses to the Perceived Value of Certification Tool (PVCT), demographic questions, and certification experience questions were requested from 1,250 certificants, 2,000 noncertificants, and 1,250 ...
Karen R, Sechrist, Wendelyn, Valentine, Linda E, Berlin   +2 more
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Additional Certified Values for CCRMP Soils SO‐1 to ‐4

Geostandards Newsletter, 1985
New mean values for up to 11 major and minor and up to 11 trace elements in soils SO‐1 to SO4 have been calculated by two procedures. Analytical results received by CCRMP subsequent to the certification program of 1979 were included. In one instance, the same procedure as used for certification wherein all results except those rejected on chemical and ...
H.F. STEGER, W.S. BOWMAN, J.A. McKEAGUE
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Adding Value: Certified Coffee Trade in North America [PDF]

, 2008
Coffee is the leading agricultural sector in terms of both the number and frequent use of social and environmental certification. This fast-growing category of certified sustainable coffees has emerged from almost negligible quantities in the late 1990s to approximately 4% of global green coffee exports in 2006 making it a multi-billion dollar segment ...
Giovannucci, Daniele, Byers, Alice, Liu, Pascal   +2 more
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Can Certified-Tea Value Chains Deliver Gender Equality in Tanzania?

Feminist Economics, 2015
A popular approach over the past twenty years has been to rely upon voluntary standards as a means to make claims, measure, and judge whether a number of social-equity concerns exist in private-sector practices. But can voluntary standards deliver gender equity?
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Self-testing positive operator-valued measures and certifying randomness

Quantum Information Processing
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Wang, Wenjie, Li, Mengyan, Guo, Fenzhuo, Wang, Yukun, Gao, Fei   +4 more
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Assessment of methods of assigning certified values to reference materials

Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie, 1983
Procedures used to assign values to reference materials may vary from one organization to another. Examples are: one laboratory using a definitive method, statistical consensus, coincidence of results of several accurate methods.
H. Marchandise, E. Colinet
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