This was less than the recommended quantity but a typical amount obtainable from our primary patient samples.
Clinical and administrative staff were asked to report on average how long a procedure took them in minutes, the typical quantity of consumables used, to list any equipment used and where each task was undertaken.
The AUDIT was administered as a self-report questionnaire composed of 10 questions including frequency of drinking, typical quantity, frequency of heavy drinking, impaired control over drinking, increased salience of drinking, morning drinking, guilt after drinking, blackouts, alcohol-related injuries, and others concerned about drinking (see Additional file 1: Table S1).
Each affecting factor either desirable or undesirable needs to be assigned its value range reasonably according to its typical quantity or conventional magnitude of the particular study.
The typical quantity considered in RNT dosimetry is not the mean activity concentration in a volume at a single time-point but rather the mean absorbed dose to that volume.
The tea bags were dipped into 200 mL of freshly boiled water for 5 min to represent the typical quantity consumed by tea drinkers.
There were four planned primary outcome measures: frequency of drinking (range: 0 28 days), number of standard drinks (10 g ethanol) per typical occasion, average weekly volume [(28-day frequency × typical quantity)/4], and AREAS score (range 0 15).
It contains questions relating to frequency of drinking, typical quantity, frequency of heavy drinking, impaired control over drinking, increased salience of drinking, morning drinking, guilt after drinking, blackouts, alcohol-related injuries and others concerned about drinking [ 22].
Therefore, the primary outcome measure will be the AUDIT-C scale (composite measure of frequency of drinking, typical quantity of drinking on one occasion, and frequency of drinking five of more drinks on one occasion).
The three secondary outcomes were the component items of the AUDIT-C: (1) frequency of drinking; (2) typical quantity consumed; and (3) number of heavy episodes of drinking per month.
