The subjective preference for analgesics for cancer pain was tied to a number of covert factors such as meaning of cancer pain treatment, past experience with pain relief and analgesic side effects, fears of dependency and tolerance, and past experience with providers and the health system.
Some findings suggested that covert factors were in play.
The policy, known as comprehensive review, has been criticized as a covert way of reviving race as a factor in admissions, which is banned by state law.
Thus, it is interesting to include organizational factors from the model in the investigation of a covert form of aggression such as workplace incivility.
Instead, data point to several possible pathophysiological processes: a covert encephalopathy, impaired physiological capability to respond to physical and mental stressors, and psychological factors related to concerns about effort exacerbating symptoms.
(He is not a covert operative).
Act like a covert revolutionary.
How about a covert wedding?
