Therefore, since in-patient stays is the most expensive component of secondary care, and in relation to LTC the most relevant, we judged hospital days to be the most appropriate measure for utilization of secondary care services.
The design of this vector may prove particularly appropriate for the utilization of influenza virus for the expression of heterologous proteins in their native form.
Importantly, the researchers report that because VIPER measures each protein's activity based on the expression of hundreds of genes, their measurements are highly reproducible and thus appropriate for clinical utilization.
An unweighted and quadratic weighted kappa were calculated to indicate the agreement within pairs of appraisers on whether a CPG was appropriate for clinical utilization.
The original model has 332 degrees of freedom, and, therefore, the system was underdetermined and appropriate for the utilization of optimization-based methods, such as the ones based on linear programming approaches.
In this study, PPIs and H2RAs for GERD were considered appropriate for investigating the utilization and the impact of generic drugs, as both branded and generic drugs were commercially available during the study period.
Currently available imaging referral guidelines in Korea are: guidelines for the use of cardiac CT in cardiac disease (2012), CT guidelines for repeat imaging (2013), Korean guidelines for appropriate utilization of cardiovascular MRI (2014).
There has been limited ability to identify biomarkers for appropriate utilization of mTORIs.
33 Once the capsule is loaded, DPIs typically require eight steps for appropriate utilization, 34 four of which are commonly associated with errors (failure to exhale before actuation, 34 failure to do a deep and rapid inhalation, 34, 35 lingual blockage of the mouthpiece, 34 failure to hold the breath after inhaling).
Specialty society partners American College of Rheumatology [22] and Canadian Rheumatology Association [23] contributed recommendations for appropriate ANA utilization, stressing that duplicative ANA testing is not warranted if there is high pre-test probability for immune-mediated disease and/or active disease.
For instance, one study performed a chart audit on 666 patients presenting with acute knee injuries and found that of 142 MRIs were performed, only 35% of the cases met consensus-based MRI indications for appropriate MRI utilization [ 41].
