At the first 2-year follow-up, participants were asked if they had ever been diagnosed by a physician with diabetes, and date of diagnosis was ascertained for those who gave a positive answer.
He also says establishment of a new registry is "really important because it was going to take enormous resources for each individual institution to ascertain for themselves" whether a given line qualified for federal support.
He suggested that the choice of A1C goal requires ascertaining a given patient's preferences for longevity versus eye/renal complications, a very difficult conversation to have with patients, many of whom are "just not able to understand" these concepts.
Therefore, he built up an extensive military library and studied the theory of warfare and analysed past campaigns to ascertain strategy and tactics for a given situation.
When using health status questionnaires to ascertain whether a treatment for a given condition is effective or not, statistical significance of effects is usually reported.
Stable and efficient navigation of wheeled robots over uneven terrains requires a framework which can correctly ascertain the stability and maneuverability for a given robot's state.
It comprises a brute-force search algorithm that covers a wide parametric study combining working fluid, resource and cooling temperatures as well as high-side pressures in order to ascertain the best working fluid for a given resource temperature and operating point.
Geweke's decomposition theorem, combined with the analysis protocol outlined in the Methods section, can help to ascertain the exact network mechanism for a given problem.
Thus, it was difficult to ascertain the accurate number of women visited for a given maternal health care service within a given month.
The bottom line is that although a "step-by-step approach," "from the safest to the riskiest," is prudent, a good history and clinical judgment are required to ascertain what, exactly, would constitute such a progression for a given patient.
