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C. Measuring effectiveness

More fundamentally, however, Chinese doctors who use traditional medicine argue that outcome measures of acupuncture as a treatment for stroke should be different from conventional measures used in Western trials, because the theory of acupuncture is different. But no one has yet specified what the appropriate outcome measures for acupuncture should be.

Measuring key results achievements.

Measuring Eco Efficiency in Business.

It is an efficiency measure.

Evolve standards of measuring efficiency in procurement

The quality of care and services provided in these facilities is not uniform.

The evaluation of effectiveness can be particularly problematic in instances where universally agreed criteria do not exist for the determination of effectiveness, such as in the measurement of treatment effectiveness.

(a) Public and non profit performance measurement, including balanced scorecard methods

Efficiency is reflected, i.e. measured in terms of performance.

With respect to measurement and evaluation, a Popperian paradigm is appropriate because it is often the case that, while it is difficult to measure or know what is effective, it may be possible to measure and know what is not effective.

Table 13.5 Objectives for the biennium, expected accomplishments, indicators of achievement and performance measures

72. Possibly because of the relative novelty of environmental performance measurement, it appears that there is no one single accepted way of defining or measuring environmental performance.

C. Best practice in measuring and communicating environmental performance

There is a considerable wealth of literature on evaluating treatment.

8. Insurance premiums as measures of the effectiveness of risk management activities

This represents a significant first step in measuring the effectiveness of its activities.

Neither indicator measures programme effectiveness.

Staffing efficiency is only one measure of the cost efficiency of procurement performance.

Measure for Mismeasure

Are they measuring the right things?

Expected accomplishments will be measured by the indicators of achievement and related performance measures.

D. Methods used by leading edge enterprises in measuring and communicating environmental performance 72 79

(a) Intersessional departures for 2005 and related matters

As a consequence of diverse lifestyles and attendant problems, it is necessary to measure improvement in a number of respects ... To the extent that a treatment modality produces improvement, it is more or less effective.

A benefit is measured by the degree to which the risk of failing to achieve a stated objective is reduced.

There is no cure, but there's something that sometimes works it usually doesn't called high dosage interleukin.

Interventions, whether in the form of advertising campaigns, education, peer pressure, advice and counselling, treatment or rehabilitation, can be effective, but measuring the extent of the effectiveness, particularly in the short term, is methodologically complex.

(d) A consideration of a balancing test that weighs up the costs and benefit of substantive consolidation.

The effectiveness of information management can be measured by the type and quality of products that are made available to the military commander.

She was convinced that effective implementation of the due diligence standard required measurable indicators, time bound targets and disaggregated data to measure compliance.

But the effectiveness of freezing action cannot be judged purely in terms of amounts frozen.

(c) Development and use of checklists to measure the comparative effectiveness of anti corruption programmes

Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention that is designed to change behaviour is difficult to undertake with precision.

In an attempt to capture these considerations, tariff escalation is frequently measured in terms of Effective Rates of Protection (ERP).

Indicators look beyond the mere quantity of the activities and outputs of the projects and attempt to measure their impact.

44. The three experimental studies show similar results methadone substitution is more efficient than placebo treatment or no treatment at all, particularly with regard to reduction of heroin consumption and involvement in criminal activity, as long as the patients are in long term treatment.

Indicators to measure progress in establishing efficient transit transport systems

A great deal has been learned in relation to the methodological issues pertaining to the measurement and evaluation of programme effectiveness.

How crazy is that? That our measure of progress, our dominant measure of progress in society, is measuring everything except that which makes life worthwhile?

to identify and record the methods being used by leading edge companies to measure and communicate environmental performance

developing single (or multiple) index models to give an aggregate environmental performance

This is based on the Multilateral Effectiveness Framework (MEFF) that measured organizational effectiveness in using the RBM approach.

The development of action plans with concrete, measurable targets has proven particularly effective.