Word: retest
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...writing to respond to a misleading article about me which appeared in The Crimson on Thursday, April 13. ("Blind Student Rejects Offer by Ad Board for Retest.") First, at the time that the article appeared, I had not yet responded to the Ad Board's offer. Thus The Crimson's headline was both premature and inaccurate. Since April 13, I may note, I have written to the Ad Board accepting their offer to let me retake my Math 1b make-up final examination...
...headline, "Blind Student Rejects Offer By Ad Board for Retest," was inaccurate. The student said yesterday he has not yet reached a decision and added that he appreciated the board's prompt response...
...patients protect themselves? Experts offer the usual consumer advice: grill the doctor about each test, ask if the lab is accredited by the Government or a professional group, refuse procedures that seem unneeded and insist on a retest when in doubt. But few people, when ill, are up to bucking their physicians or shopping around for lab tests. Insurance companies have more power. Last year Blue Cross & Blue Shield created new guidelines for common diagnostic tests, which suggested that the plan might eventually refuse to pay for unneeded ones. The ultimate goal: to prevent useless tests from being ordered...
...resent the slanted use which Teresa A. Mullin made of my remarks in her November 4 article "B-School May Retest MBAs". While Ms. Mullin did not misquote me, she distorted my remarks considerably by presenting me as an authoritative source when I had made it perfectly clear that I was not. I stated repeatedly that I did not think (and I did emphasize the verb) that it was common for professors to investigate case sales histories before administering exams, but that I was not at all sure since those inquiries would not, in any case, be directed...
...crude measures of death rates and simple indices of complications mark only the first salvos in what will undoubtedly by a prolonged battle to construct, test, reconstruct and retest measures of the quality of the components of American health care. Some snake oil will be sold to those impatient for good methods of measurement, but, in the longer run, the serious efforts of health services researchers and managers are more likely than not to yield sound and credible measurement tools for the quality of care. Armed with those tools--but not without them--we may be able to defend...