Using the same test, there was evidence for a trend of increasing experience required with increasing potential complication score (p < 0.001) Our results would suggest that Habib's 'potential difficulty score' can, indeed, be used to inform the surgeon of the likely difficulty of a phacoemulsification case as well as the likelihood of a posterior capsule rupture [ 2].
To counteract this bias, more challenging cases were preferentially selected for the test set, using striatal binding ratio results as a surrogate marker of the likely difficulty in classifying the data.
Knowledge of the likely difficulty of a particular case would be useful for the selection of appropriate cases for trainee surgeons, based on their surgical experience.
The authors advocate that Habib's potential difficulty score can be used to help inform the surgeon of the likely difficulty of a phacoemulsification case, and that itcan be used to aid the selection of appropriate cases for trainees of varying experience.
Their big-hitters - politicians like the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and his equivalent at the European Council Donald Tusk - have confined themselves to a little nifty defensive work pointing to the likely difficulty of the talks, hoping for a fair outcome and reiterating that until Britain formally triggers the departure process everything is mere shadow boxing.
Along with Asimov's later robot stories, it set a new standard of plausibility about the likely difficulty of developing intelligent robots and the technical and social problems that might result.
The technology, they warned, posed a danger of quickening the spread of nuclear weapons because of the likely difficulty of detecting clandestine plants.
Focus group participants indicated that the model sounded promising but noted the likely difficulty in enacting it in our current health care system.
David later hired Washington, D.C. attorney Tony Bisceglie to organize evidence acquired by Swanson and make contact with the FBI, given the likely difficulty in attracting the FBI's attention.
These studies need to develop and evaluate interventions that address a range of likely difficulties - in training and adoption of SDM and risk communication skills, use of decision aids with real patients, and follow-up of their effectiveness as patients try to adapt treatment plans to their everyday lives.
Bearing in mind likely difficulties achieving a reasonable response rate, perhaps it is not surprising that a majority of our respondents was positive about the use of referral guidelines.
