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component ofqualityof life, and smokers showed
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or qualityoflife improvement with well-designed RCTs is
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points ofqualityoflifeand symptomatic ... better
survival, and fewer patients and less time are needed to
complete a trial. However, the reason why surrogate end-
points ofqualityoflife are used instead of formal (psy-
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error of measurement to identify important changes on the
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... and NCQA developed
data entry rules [Appendix A] and a quality assurance
plan. The quality assurance plan focuses attention on
standardizing five key areas of vendor performance:
1. systems and ... moni-
toring of data entry by vendor staff, and preparation and
submission of data files;
4. beneficiary confidentiality – mandates specific require-
ments for confidentiality of person-level data; and,
5. ... between the
CDAC standard and the vendor standard were compared
to the original hard copy surveys and adjudicated by a
data quality control supervisor. A final "gold standard" for
each...