Our key outcome measure focused on appropriateness of decisions during diagnostic workup rather than accuracy in identifying the correct diagnosis.
The FDA categories can be used to determine the appropriateness of prescribing during pregnancy and the percentage of pregnancies exposed per FDA category is reported.
Future research should also focus on the development and validation of explicit process criteria to examine the appropriateness of prescribing during pregnancy.
The validation process at this stage involved minor modifications of the draft tools to reflect cultural appropriateness issues identified during the pre-testing.
Therefore, the overall aim of this study is to establish the prevalence, patterns and appropriateness of prescribing during pregnancy in a pilot group of GP practices affiliated to the Irish Primary Care Research Network IPCRNN).
The OPAQ is an 81-item, validated instrument that was developed with patients and healthcare professionals which shows adequate psychometric properties and appropriateness for use during clinical trials [ 9– 11].
To summarize this whole section, just war theory offers rules to guide decision-makers on the appropriateness of their conduct during the resort to war, conduct during war and the termination phase of the conflict.
The ad stirred debate about the appropriateness of political messages during the Super Bowl.
Ms. Korpi shared her findings about the appropriateness of using aspirin during heart attacks with more than 30,000 scientists, clinicians, doctors and surgeons last month in Dallas.
