If so, it is essential to offer a rationale linking point selection to the biomedical mechanism.
STRICTA consists of 15 items including acupuncture rationale, points used, number of needle inserted depths of insertion, response elicited, needle stimulation, needle retention time, needle type, treatment regimen, co-interventions, practitioner background, duration of training, length of clinical experience, expertise, control interventions.
So the "concerted efforts from governments and donors" that the report points out as a rationale of this good progress is likely missing an important point and therefore missing important lessons of the past 20 years or so in development experience.
This chapter attempts to share with the readers, from a clinical point of view, the rationale of footwear design in relation to common foot problems.
From a clinical point of view, the rationale behind the functional module analysis and biomarker discovery performed by atBioNet is to find effective and robust biomarkers for a disease.
Robert Young offers a possible rationale for this point of view in more abstract terms: Those who conceive of morality exclusively, or a least predominantly, within a traditional (deontological) framework claim, that doing something harmful is intrinsically morally wrong – that is, is morally wrong in itself, regardless of any good consequences it may produce.
It is, however, possible that authors have described a needle technique using the language of a TA model and omitted to provide a rationale for their point selection.
From a theoretical point of view there is a sound rationale to apply EYT in patients [ 11, 30], while the empirical evidence for its essential use is unclear.
This alteration to a key point of interaction with the activators, as evident in the crystal structure, provides a structural rationale for the measured selectivity.
This cost analysis points to the importance of a rationale for the inclusion of certain costs in order to reduce unwanted variability in cost data.
