Interrupted Time Series
The impact of Regional co payment and National reimbursement criteria on statins use in Italy: an interrupted time series analysis
... the interrupted time series regression analysis allowed us to obtain more valid estimates of the impact of co-payment and national reimbursement criteria on the utilization of statins compared to a ...
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A comprehensive set of post estimation measures to enrich interrupted time series analysis
... Interrupted time-series analysis ( ITSA ) is a suitable evaluation approach when a single unit is being studied (that is, individual, city, state, country), when the outcome vari- able is serially ...
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The effect of a pharmaceutical transitional care program on rehospitalisations in internal medicine patients: an interrupted time series study
... an interrupted- time series analysis and we assessed various ...the interrupted time series analysis would be desirable, but studies as ours are labour intensive and the number ...
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Smoke free legislation and the incidence of paediatric respiratory infections and wheezing/asthma: interrupted time series analyses in the four UK nations
... 1997–2012. Interrupted time series analyses were performed using generalised additive mixed models, adjusting for underlying incidence trends, population size changes, seasonal factors, and pandemic ...
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Effects of implementing free maternity service policy in Kenya: an interrupted time series analysis
... fitting. Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA), a strong longi- tudinal quasi-experimental design [25–29] with a single group was used to assess the effects of the Free Mater- nity Service Policy ...
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Deregulation of sale of over the counter drugs outside of pharmacies in the Republic of Korea: interrupted time series analysis of outpatient visits before and after the policy
... 4 Interrupted time series analysis of the effect of the over-the-counter drug policy on number of monthly outpatient visits for acute upper respiratory infections, dyspepsia, and migraine (Low-income ...
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The impact of prescriptions audit and feedback for antibiotic use in rural clinics: interrupted time series with segmented regression analysis
... applies interrupted time series data, using a pre-experimental study design to estimate intervention effects in nonrandomized settings, which is one of the strongest way to capture the effect of the ...
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Implementation of a Transfer Intervention Procedure (TIP) to improve handovers from hospital to home: interrupted time series analysis
... Methods: The current study is set to implement the TIP, a structured discharge process for all patients admitted to the hospital, with the purpose to provide a safe, reliable and accurate discharge process. Eight ...
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Training emergency services’ dispatchers to recognise stroke: an interrupted time series analysis
... Speech Time to dial 999 (FAST) mass multi-media public awareness campaign [14], which was coming to an end when Phase 8 started; may have raised awareness of stroke in both the public and ...the time that ...
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The effects of financial incentives for case finding for depression in patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease: interrupted time series analysis
... The impact of this policy has been uncertain. The effectiveness of fi nancial incentives in changing clinical behaviour is limited 12 and pay-for-performance schemes often have unintended adverse consequences. 13 More ...
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The impact of hospital accreditation on quality measures: an interrupted time series analysis
... over time [9]. The use of a time series framework, in this research, directly addresses this ...pirical interrupted time series analysis of ...
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Effect of implementation of a smoke free policy on physical violence in a psychiatric inpatient setting: an interrupted time series analysis
... Given the relatively small number of data points (42) and the danger of over- parameterisation, we first built models to estimate the impact of the policy adjusting only for the underlying time trend and ...
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The impact of expanded brucellosis surveillance in beef cattle on human brucellosis in Korea: an interrupted time series analysis
... During Phase 2 (after Intervention 1, when beef cattle surveillance was extended to slaughterhouses and bulls), our results demonstrated a significant temporal correl- ation between the incidence of human and the cattle ...
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Impact of a direct to consumer information campaign on prescription patterns for overactive bladder
... Methods: We performed a 3-year retrospective cohort study of 1332 participants who were diagnosed overactive bladder but not prescribed treatment drugs prior to the examined DTCI campaign (exposure), using the health ...
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Rapid evaluation for health and social care innovations: challenges for “quick wins” using interrupted time series
... A local evaluation for the Gateshead EHCH van- guard was commissioned to quantitatively evaluate the impact of the vanguard in terms of effect and value for money. This evaluation was conducted during the first 2 years ...
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Challenges to validity in single group interrupted time series analysis
... the time series is associated with the introduction of the treatment, treatment effects may seem less plausi- ble if a shift in the time series appears prior to the actual ...the time ...
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The effect of external inspections on safety in acute hospitals in the National Health Service in England: A controlled interrupted time-series analysis.
... 20. Kontopantelis E, Doran T, Springate DA, et al. Regression based quasi- experimental approach when randomisation is not an option: interrupted time series analysis. BMJ: British Medical Journal ...
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Association between malaria control and paediatric blood transfusions in rural Zambia: an interrupted time series analysis
... This time period is associated with a 68% decrease in paediatric outpatient malaria ...over time between malaria outpatient visits and malaria inpatient ...
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The effect of teamwork training on team performance and clinical outcome in elective orthopaedic surgery : a controlled interrupted time series study
... performance of the WHO surgical checklist. After com- pleting classroom training, the trainers returned regu- larly to provide on-the-job coaching to each theatre over the next 6 weeks. We attempted to give training to ...
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Immediate versus sustained effects: interrupted time series analysis of a tailored intervention
... first time prescriptions (to avoid re- peat prescriptions) for any anti-depressants recorded within 18 months of the diagnosis were ...enable time series analysis, the aggregated data were ...
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