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Releasing performance outcome information (Quality Measures data) gives consumers additional information to consider when selecting a nursing home, and consequently, may also spur efforts to improve the quality of care provided in nursing homes overall [ 1 ] . These efforts to improve quality may result from increased consumer consciousness due to public reporting, and, consequently, heightened competition in the nursing home market based on relative quality of care, or may be a response to the incentive to compare favourably with other individual facilities based on publicly-reported data [ 2 3 ] . There may remain other motivating factors, but still open to debate is which effect has the greatest impact on healthcare providers' efforts to improve [ 4 ] .
France officially adopted the metric system in the early 1800s, and the rest of the continent quickly followed in hopes that a standardized measurement system would spur international trade.
Phalaenopsis amabilis , the lovable moth-resembling orchid, or Trichocentrum orthoplectron , the hairy-spurred cock's spur orchid (another binomial that tries to say it twice).
Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
We helped spur the administration to make human