The aim of this study was to develop and validate evidence-based medication-related indicators of potentially preventable hospitalisations.
The application of epidemiological data in health services evaluation in an attempt to engender or validate evidence-based decision making for planning, administration and evaluation is relatively underdeveloped.
The rarity of validating evidence from surface rupturing palaeo-earthquakes typically limits the confidence with which these extrapolated statistical parameters may be applied.
The paper thus provides experimentally validated evidence for calibrating micro-mechanical models for subsequent simulation of macroscopic material properties using the combination of high-resolution imaging techniques and quantitative image analysis.
The risk is that opinions (put forward by dominant members or by the majority of members) are accepted as validated evidence.
For the time being, clinical decision-making should not be based upon individual biological tumour marker profiles until further prospectively validated evidence confirming the reliability of predictive markers is available.
Whether the VNS can expand their role in end-of-life care remains to be seen but their base-line position before the policy initiative did not provide validating evidence.
The study was part of a broader PROVE IT (Policy Relevant Outcomes from Validating Evidence on ImpacT) (http://www.treattb.org) evaluation that assessed the impact of new molecular tests on the diagnosis and treatment of TB in routine operational conditions.
This finding indicated that combining examinations of multiple markers may improve the predictive value of these markers regarding response to targeted therapy with mTOR inhibitors, which need to be supported by further validating evidence from larger cohort.
