A reliable and useful clinical biomarker must a) come from a readily attainable source, such as blood or urine, b) have sufficient sensitivity to correctly identify affected individuals, c) have sufficient specificity to avoid incorrect labeling of unaffected persons, and d) result in a notable benefit for the patient through intervention, such as survival or life quality improvement.
But regulating the trade in synthetic drugs within a legal framework is an attainable objective that would reduce the negative impact.
No isolate of P. aeruginosa and only a few of Enterobacter and enterococci were killed by 25 mug of cefazolin/ml, a concentration readily attainable in serum with a 500-mg dose given intramuscularly.
At a policy level, prevention may be an attainable objective.
But it is also an attainable objective, daunting as it seems.
His return visits to the DRC and relentless encouragement to implementing partners-despite the obvious challenges-allowed government officials and implementing partners to believe that increasing contraceptive prevalence at the national level was in fact an attainable objective.
As implied by our definition of provider observations, we require that a timestamp be included or readily attainable to indicate the precise time at which the provider makes each observation available.
He suggests that Nicole may be flirting with body dysmorphia, and that the ability to reach a healthy point for her is readily attainable.
We see here a 'constructive skepticist' response to the Skeptics who say no knowledge is possible and to those ancient and latter-day 'dogmatic' thinkers (including, in his view, the Aristotelians and Descartes) who say knowledge involves the attainment of certain belief and is readily attainable.
Tumour DNA was analysed because peripheral blood samples were not readily attainable from NB patients representing a number of oncologic centres from two countries.
Although to be lauded such an approach is hampered by the low incidence of PE, especially that of ePE, thereby necessitating a very large biobank of material which is not readily attainable.
