All investigations were done at Glostrup Hospital, Departments of Neurology, Neurophysiology and Diagnostics, and at the Coordinating Research Centre, Dept. of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Frederiksberg Hospital.
The severity of anomaly and diagnostic and prognostic ambiguity influenced the paternal psychological response.
Chronic cough is a burdensome health problem for patients and diagnostic and treatment challenge for the managing physicians.
The key organizations involved were the New Zealand Ministry of Health, the University of Auckland, the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), Chiron (now Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics), the NIPH and the WHO.
However, not all medicine is comfortable and there are risks and benefits to all clinical interventions and required diagnostics, and the PR/DRE exam may provide pellets of diagnostic information that can change or impact patient care and management.
The details of study design, screening protocol, policy for referrals and diagnostics, surveillance and the evaluation of outcomes have been described in full elsewhere.
Hence, there is a data gap in relation to funding of clinical trials and development of vaccines and diagnostics, which the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry are financing.
Besides patient experiences, the quality of the clinical reasoning process with respect to the screening and diagnostics process, the intervention process, and the outcome, was also measured [ 7].
A detailed report of the clinical and diagnostic features and the outcomes of these 39 patients was published previously [ 3].
