In the control arm, participants will fill out the baseline questionnaire; however, results of the screening-questionnaires will not be reported back to participants, and no further interventions will be advised at baseline.
For example, the grid advises a baseline regimen for community-acquired IAI presenting with localized peritonitis and severe sepsis.
Plain radiographs of the affected joint are often not helpful to establish the diagnosis but are advised as a baseline study for longitudinal follow-up and to help narrow the list of differentials or suggest alternative diagnoses, for example an underlying bone tumour or a fracture.
Kobe Bryant, whose unremarkable line of 15 missed shots and 6 turnovers also included an ill-advised baseline drive at the end of regulation, was bumped each time he penetrated toward the rim.
Individuals were advised to maintain their baseline physical activity.
The patients were advised to continue their baseline medical treatment with no change throughout the 15-week study period.
Both the MI and SDI women were given intervention goals according to their baseline BMI as shown in Additional file 1. Women found to be in the healthy weight range (18.5 – 24.9 kg/m) at baseline were advised to maintain that weight within 1 kg for the duration of the study.
This study has attempted to mitigate for within-participant variation by measuring behaviours across multiple baselines as advised by Perkins et al. (1999), analysing six pre- and six post-therapy 5 min conversation samples in total.
An RTE team can also be a resource, encouraging and advising on appropriate baseline surveys and monitoring systems.
Figure 1 illustrates response to over- and under-support as advice and preference functions in a patient where the system advised to return PS towards baseline.
However, a plausible explanation is that all participants in whom hypertension was diagnosed during the baseline visit were advised to visit their general practitioner for blood pressure surveillance and treatment if indicated.
