1 [2]. 2  According to a 2007 study on safe staffing in Medical Care, an increase of one registered nurse (RN) per patient was associated with a 24 percent reduction in time spent in the intensive care unit and a 31 percent reduction in time spent in surgical units.
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E): appropriations fund the efforts performed by contractors and government activities required for the Research and Development (R&D) of equipment, material, computer application software, and its Test and Evaluation (T&E) to include Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and Live-Fire Test ...
Congressional Research Service 6. which is to sort out and classify foreign aid accounts in the U.S. budget according to the types of. activities they are expected to support, using broad categories such as military, bilateral. development, multilateral development, non-military security, humanitarian, and.