In its draft guidance Nice tells hospitals that they should develop "escalation plans to address risk to patient care posed by: variation in demand for A&E services, variation in nursing needs, and departmental overcrowding".
This has been an unprecedented predicament for a developed European country, and the extremity of its escalation this past year has created too many intense personal stories, and too much human drama.
We developed an escalation policy for the reporting system to align it with in-house governance and safeguarding structures.
Sales leaders therefore need to develop clear escalation and exception protocols to manage the trickiest or most valuable situations, making sure a sales rep keeps a robot from losing a big sale.
If no DLT developed, dose escalation would continue.
If 2 or 3 of the initial 3 patients treated at a dose level, or 1, 2, or 3 of the additional 3 patients at a dose level developed DLT, dose escalation ceased.
High absolute levels of tariff escalation in developing countries suggest that potentially large gains could be realized if escalation were removed by developing economies themselves (Rae and Josling, 2003).
Given addiction is a chronic and progressive disease [ 54], identifying and treating individuals in the earlier stages can theoretically prevent further escalation into a fully developed addiction, psychopathological disorder or suicidal behaviour.
The violence of this assault marks a disturbing escalation in the developing civil war in Libya, suggesting that the regime has now decided to pursue a no-holds barred strategy to crush the rebellion, despite the growing threats of international action.
Intraoperative radiation therapy is a treatment technique, which has been developed for dose escalation in body regions, where such doses are hardly achievable with external beam radiotherapy alone because of adjacent organs at risk which much lower tolerance than in extremity regions.
But developing countries have shown an escalation in obesity rates never seen before.
