"There is an impressive absence of procedures, guidelines, clinical protocols, safety measures, training of personnel, psychological support, communication capacity, etc, etc," they wrote.
Show them how to ensure that no criminal investigation will ever, and I mean ever, be compromised by the mishandling of evidence or the absence of procedures and analyses that should have been done, she said.
So does the disturbing absence of procedures to notify people who are on the watch list, or to give them a chance to see and challenge allegations against them.
A recent deal between Exxon Mobil and the Kurdistan government in the north has been deemed illegal by Baghdad in the absence of procedures for sharing the country's oil resources.
The majority of respondents (60%) indicated absence of procedures for reporting the violence, or any encouragement to report events (59%).
These trauma centers were able to provide definitive care, but the level of care for each patient may have been different in the absence of procedures validating the ability of staff to manage all trauma patients.
This reluctance was due to: the absence of procedures to express them, to the lack of knowledge thereof, fear of reprisals, of being misunderstood as well as factors such as age-related power, ethnicity backgrounds, and women's status.
An added confusion is the absence of procedures for identifying adverse events in a consistent manner across companies (for trials) and across voluntary reports in the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA), the data dictionary for MedWatch [ 43].
Various screening tools are also in use, which sort projects based on the presence or absence of procedures that may be associated with risk, such as the testing of new medical treatments or the use of questionnaires probing sensitive issues (e.g., ARECCI [ 15]; King's College London [ 16]; Vanier College [ 17]).
The first set of acuity measurements indicated that in the absence of procedures to reduce glare, the iPad provided acuity measurements that were significantly worse by an average of 0.18 LogMAR (9 letters) than all other tests under both normal (F1,55=56.05, p≤0.01) and blurred (F1,65=69.86, p≤0.01) testing conditions (figure 2A).
