Outcomes, defining expected

The expected outcomes define the expected behavior of the patient or family that indicates the problem is being resolved or that progress toward resolution is occurring. 

Expected outcomes define the expected behavior of the patient or family that indicates that the problem is being resolved or that progress toward resolution is occurring. Expected outcomes serve as a basis for evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions. For example, if the nursing intervention is to monitor the blood pressure every hour, the expected outcome is that the patient experiences no further elevation in blood pressure ... 

GR-6.2.2.10 Personnel Training. The Quality System for personnel training shall provide for documentation of the objectives and the expected outcome of the training. The input defining the training needs shall be provided to support each Quality System function and the specific project requirements. 

The research plan is organized around a set of well-defined model systems and a limited number of detailed experiments. The experiments are designed to progress over a five-year period from fundamental studies on model systems to development of thin film materials with potential practical applications. Together they will form a coherent bond of film growth using LCI with a variety of molecular building and LC solvents. The expected outcomes of this work will be... 

Production, transport, and storage of products underlie several SOPs, which define the parameters and required results from tests at different stages. Since the world is not as perfect as described in an SOP, there are deviations from the expected outcomes, in which some of the results from testing do not conform to the specified parameters. The results are referred to as nonconformities or exceptions. 

Efficiency checks are performed in regular intervals after the exception occurred. These checks are based on the expected outcome of a process where the exception occurred and either are of simple binary nature or incorporate measures of deviation that allow the next occurrence of the exception to be predicted. Exception may be closed either manually or automatically. Manual closure is performed by a responsible person and requires appropriate statements for reasoning. Automatic closure is usually defined with a time interval in which the exception is not allowed to recur. The handling of exceptions usually requires changes in predefined procedures. In regulated environments, these changes have to be requested and approved before they can take place. 

The risk being analyzed in a TSVA is an expression of the likehhood that a defined threat will exploit a specific vulnerabihty of a particnlar target or combination of targets to cause a given set of consequences along a transportation route. Since historical data and trends (available for accidents) do not directly apply to intentional acts, a secnrity risk analysis is usually performed using qualitative techniques. The expected outcome is a qualitative estimate of risk that can be used as a basis for determining which security issues may require additional protective countermeasures. 

In some defined way, the description of the environment must be collapsed to the behavior of a few variables, which must then be related to the impact indicators. An objective, although not always achievable, is that for each of the proposed actions and for each of the human concerns, the expected outcomes can be compared on numerical scales. 

In financial mathematics random variables are used to describe the movement of asset prices, and assuming certain properties about the process followed by asset prices allows us to state what the expected outcome of events are. A random variable may be any value from a specified sample space. The specifica-ti(Mi of the probability distribution that appUes to the sample space will define the frequency of particular values taken by the random variable. The cumulative distribution function of a random variable X is defined using the distribution function yo such that Pr Xdiscrete random variable is one that can assume a finite or countable set of values, usually assumed to be the set of positive integers. We define a discrete random variable X with its own proba-bdity function p i) such that p i)=Pr X = /. In this case the probabiUty distribution is... 

Informal and formal trade-off analysis objectives, execution, data collection requirranmts, schedule of activities, analysis of results, and expected outcomes need to be fully defined. Each trade-off analysis is conducted for the purpose of selecting among competing alternatives to support customer needs, system effectivraiess, design-to-cost, or life cycle cost objectives within acceptable levels of risk. 

The assessment and analysis of the inherent safety performance in the hydrogen system requires sound and appropriate metrics. Several valuable proposals for inherent safety metrics (Cozzani et al. 2007, Tugnoli et al. 2007) as well as the main issues needed for such assessment are well summarized in the literature (Roller ef a/. 2001, Khan eta/. 2003). Recently, a novel consequence-based approach for inherent safety key performance indicators (KPI) assessment was proposed (Tugnoli et al. 2007). The approach bases the calculation of safety indicators on the evaluation of the expected outcomes of the hazard present in the system, by runs of specific physical consequence models. The KPI method was preferred in the current assessment framework, since, unlike other approaches, it allows easily fitting the peculiarities of the analysed systems and does not require subjective judgment. Furthermore, the KPI method was newly reviewed to describe some particular features of the hydrogen chain. In particular the assessment of transport units was added and new index aggregation rules were defined. 

Validation is defined as the documentation of evidence of performance properties of a method, procedure or process. A method is valid, when it achieves its expected outcomes in a consistent manner. Many chemical and physical analytical methods are subject to the need for validation. Process validation is discussed in Chap. 34 concerning validation of processes, equipment, procedures, premises. 

In that context, the expected outcome of the application of a leading indicator would be identified and declared and, in an appropriate time, be subjected to a cause-and-effect test. For example, assume that 5 million is to be spent on defined sales promotion initiatives and the goal established is to increase market share by 20 million. At a later date, the hypothesis test would determine whether the numerical goal for increased market share was or was not reached. If not, the premises on which the expenditure proposal was based could be called into question due to a lack of a positive cause-and-effect relationship. 

A successful project produces an outcome that performs as expected, by deadline, and within cost limits. Thus, the three parameters by which a project is planned and controlled are established. Quality is defined by specifications, time is defined by schedule, and costs are defined by a budget. 

Consider a system in state w and that a measurement of the physical quantity X is made with the possible outcomes Xi,X2,-", and that this experiment is repeated a large number of times for the same state w. If the result Xj occurs a proportion pj of the times, then (classically) the mean (or average or expectation) value is defined as... 

Our chemical experiences suggest that differential equations seem to be something stable, and by that we mean that, if there is a small change in one of the conditions, either initial concentrations or rate constants, we expect small changes in the outcomes as well. The classical example for a stable system is our solar system of planets orbiting the sun. Their trajectories are defined by their masses and initial location and velocity, all of which are the initial parameters of a relatively simple system of differential equations. As we all know, the system is very stable and we can predict the trajectories with an incredible precision, e.g. the eclipses and even the returns of comets. For a long time, humanity believed that the whole universe behaves in a similarly predictable way, of course much more complex but still essentially predictable. Descartes was the first to formally propose such a point of view. 

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