On the first question, it is fair to say Kratzer's approach to modality has held up well, though it is hardly unchallenged.
The following items were compiled in the evidence tables for SPG block (Table 2-12): first author, year of publication, medical condition treated, approach, imaging modality, medication used for the procedure, number of cases, study design and outcome.
We reported the use of a combined percutaneous and endoscopic approach (dual modality drainage [DMD]) for the treatment of symptomatic and infected WOPN, with good short-term outcomes in a small cohort of patients.
Meta-analyses have been difficult to perform due to different methodological approaches, treatment modalities and rehabilitation programs.
Overall, multiple interventions meta-analyses conducted in this framework seek to determine both which intervention approach or modality is most effective in addressing the outcome of interest, as well as what the relative effectiveness is of different approaches or modalities as compared against each other.
Based on a qualitative investigation of nurse-patient interactions in acute inpatient wards, Cleary and colleagues [ 25] suggested that skilled nurses apply various interpersonal approaches and modalities to engage with acutely unwell patients.
Bortezomib and, to a lesser extent, lenalidomide have demonstrated improved outcomes in patients with high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities, including t(4 14), when compared with conventional therapy, but other novel treatment approaches or modalities may prove to be more effective.
For these reasons, similar to parcellation of brain areas in other species (e.g., Felleman and Van Essen 1991), parcellation of human brain areas will be a product of the convergence of multiple analysis approaches and modalities.
Of note, the relatively high rate of severe hypotensive events in patients treated with IHD (see below), despite being judged clinically 'hemodynamically stable', both supports the ATN approach to modality assignment and suggests that, from a hemodynamic point of view, a greater number of patients may have benefited from more liberal use of CRRT than that chosen for the study.
