It is possible that behaviour or attitudes changed after being diagnosed with and being counselled on acute hepatitis C; this might be particularly applicable to the questions on unprotected anal intercourse or attitudes toward condom use, leading to an underestimation of levels of UAI before HCV acquisition among the cases.
On request of the individual professionals we added the option 'not applicable' to the questions about the practice organisation and collaboration.
However, we chose this method since this was highly applicable to the initial question addressed in this work, namely, the selection of compound libraries which would produce active hits upon screening.
These levels of risk and evidence suggest that the majority of conclusions drawn from these studies are representative and applicable to the review question.
The most common reasons for exclusion were for results not applicable to the research question, not published in a major journal, small sample size, review articles, and duplicates.
Not least, the mountaineer must consider how confident she is in the data-collection procedure, whether the statistics are applicable to the day in question, and so on, when assessing her options in light of the weather.
In addition, the residents learned how to determine whether study results are valid and applicable to the patient in question.
Since the time of study, problems arising from ambiguous phrasing in ADs and, for example, the clinically observed prevalence of ADs that were not applicable to the situations in question, have lead to the promotion of advanced care planning (ACP).
Second, when there is evidence it may not be applicable to the patient in question or the clinician may be reluctant to apply it to the patient based on a number of secondary issues such as costs, premorbid condition or possible complications.
Thus, this study suggested that the counter-stereotype approach is efficient (in some cases) in combating stereotype threat (when the stereotype is applicable to the group in question – in this case, older participants) and stereotype activation (when the stereotype does not apply to the group – in this case, younger participants).
