Admission Criteria

Even those schools that state grades and test scores are the most important admissions criteria can end up making application decisions based on the essay. Consider that hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants to the same school will have near identical grades and test scores. How does the admissions committee make their decision They use the essay as a tip factor all other things being equal, whose essay is better than the rest In this scenario, your essay can easily become the school s reason for accepting or rejecting your application. 

Slemrod, M., 1983, Admissibility criteria for propagating phase boundaries in a van derWaals fluid,drcA. 

Actual use studies are often called slice-of-life studies. In the real world, what will this OTC product do It helps when inclusion and exclusion criteria are minimized, as they are in the supermarket or pharmacy. Every effort should be made to simulate the way in which patients will actually use the drug. Eliminating large segments of this population by strict admission criteria will simply give a result that is irrelevant. In some cases, it may even be necessary to even have patients pay for the drug, in order to assess the motivational factors associated with a purchase (they can be reimbursed post hoc and without their prior information). 

Expects that colleges and schools will develop and utilize admission criteria, policies, and procedures that consider not only academic qualifications but also other factors which may impact upon success in the professional program (e.g., communication skills, etc.). 

One of the primary roles of the pharmacist is the preadmission assessment. This role ensures that each patient is assessed for appropriateness using predetermined admission criteria. Common criteria are outlined in Table 1. 

Cardiac patients receiving inotropic therapy can be successfully treated in the home using specific admission criteria and monitoring guidelines, and home dobuta-mine infusions can improve functional status and quality of life of patients with severe heart failure. 

As part of the admission process, NTPD programs generally require applicants to provide the following information proof of licensure, a completed application form, application fee, official college transcripts, and several letters of recommendation. Other admission criteria vary substantially between programs but may include an on-campus interview, satisfactory achievement on minimum competency assessments, satisfactory completion of prerequisite coursework, and/or minimum GPA criteria. 

Patient Admissibility Criteria Contraindications Patient Training... 

Once the admission criteria of Section 31.3.1 are followed, no contraindications are known to the author from his personal observations or training experience with approximately 100 patients. Also, none are known to have been reported in the literature. 

This chapter discusses the Parastep system, which is the first and stiU, the only FDA-approved transcutaneous (noninvasive) FES system for ambulation by complete or near-complete thoracic-level paraplegics. It describes what this system can already do for the thoracic-level (complete) paraplegic patient in noninvasive FES. It gives concrete data from many studies on how that system performs. It also discusses its design, operation, admission criteria, contraindications, and training. 

We now apply the admissibility criteria of the previous section. For the variation pair 5y, Ju) to be admissible, 6u t) should generate a state variation Sy governed by Equation (8.15). Moreover, the variation pair must satisfy the remaining constraints, i.e.. Equation (8.16) and Inequality (8.17). 

Slemrod, M., Admissibility criteria for phase boundaries. Non-linear hyperbolic problems (St. Etienne, 1986), 196-171. Lecture Notes in Math., 1270, Springer, Berlin-New York, 1987. 

Shearer, M Admissibility criteria for shock wave solutions of a system of conservation laws of mixed type. Proceedings Royal Society of Edinburgh 93 (1983) 233-244. 

It has long been recognized that there are solutions of (3.1) which could never be observed. This has led to the study of "admissibility criteria" designed to exclude solutions of (3.1) which are non-dissipative. With non-monotone stress-strain relations the question of admissibilty is much more delicate. We refer the reader to the work of Hagan and Slemrod [13] for a complete discussion, only pausing to note that traditional criteria for the admissibility of shock waves are not adequate. 

It is possible to enter not only existing technical installations in the risk inventory, but planned installations as well. It can be determined how risk stress will be changed by planned installations and how by suitable location selection high risk values can be avoided. The risk inventory together with the proposed admissibility criteria thus becomes a planning instrument and an objective source of information for persons living in the risk area. 

Specialist wards Regional / national catchment area Care of particular problems, e.g. personality disorders, challenging behaviour, eating disorders, LD, substance misuse, neuropsychiamy Patients must usually meet smict admission criteria and have funding... 

Clarify admission criteria and any plans for out-of-hours presentations... 

Remark 3.1. k physical system will be in equilibrium only if the total virtual work in accordance with the admissibility criteria vanishes. 

Facilities vary in admission criteria, care levels, nursing skills, and diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities (15). Sites may he divided into intermediate care facilities and longterm care facilities (Table 3). 

Since its inception in 1986 in response to the growing need for a more appropriate environment for LTMV patients, our unit has expanded from 5 to 22 beds. For the CAVC unit to be successful, it is important to carefully select patients who meet written admission criteria, to have an interdisciplinary clinical team with technical knowledge and experience, and to have the capability for the ongoing monitoring of ventilation and gas exchange. 

An example of admission criteria is found in Table 1. All patients have a preadmission assessment by the multidisciplinary team to ensure that they are appropriate to the CAVC environment and can safely be cared for outside of the acute care environment. A smooth transition from acute care is very important, especially for individuals who have been in such a sheltered ICU environment for a long time. Patients and families are usually apprehensive about leaving the intensive nursing and monitoring environment of the ICU. Therefore, patients able to be transported to the CAVC unit are assessed there to provide them and their families the opportunity to visit the unit, thus making the subsequent transfer a little less stressfiil. 

Mantone J. Two in one. The CMS strict admissions criteria make iong term acute care hospitais consider co-iocating with skiiied-nursing facilities. Mod Healthc 2005 35(45) 26-28. 

Process indicators, such as patient sources and patient admission criteria and... 

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