While there is clearly a need to better engage these key affected populations in TasP programs, the decision to prioritize screening and treatment based on certain risk behaviors rather than on medical need continues to be a subject of debate.
Selection of patients with the greatest loss of cartilage based on certain risk factors such as meniscal extrusion, should be carefully considered, because it may not necessarily provide a better chance of identifying differences between treatment groups.
Before May, 2007 MRSA screening was selective based on certain risk factors including pre-operative patients in elective surgery, emergency orthopedics and trauma surgery, critical care, patients known to be MRSA positive, oncology/chemotherapy inpatients and patients admitted from high-risk settings [ 1].
Your doctor may recommend more frequent cholesterol testing based on certain risk factors such as your age, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes or family history of heart disease.
Numerous multivariable risk scores have been developed to estimate a patient's 10 year risk of cardiovascular disease based on certain key known risk factors, 1 2 including the Framingham risk score 3 and the Reynolds risk score, 4 both developed using patient data from US, the SCORE system using patients from multiple European countries, 5 and ASSIGN using patients from Scotland.
Based on certain demographic and risk characteristics on file with Humana Inc, a total of 7,687 men 55 to 80 years of age and women 60 to 80 years of age without evidence of atherothrombotic disease but presumed to be at risk for near-term atherothrombotic events were enrolled between January 2008 and June 2009.
Fifth, participants of clinical trials are selected based on certain inclusion and exclusion criteria, which reflect the risk status of only a subgroup of the general population.
[ 19- 21] Previous investigations have reported that the health risk during training may vary based on certain demographic factors [ 3, 13] and residency-related characteristics (e.g., program type and post-graduate year).
This thinking is based on certain observations of an inverse relationship between birth weight and risk of T2D and metabolic syndrome (MS) in elderly populations.
Most investigations have been based on certain occupational groups [ 4] or distinct industrial sectors [ 7, 10] attempting to identify work-related risk factors for DP with MSD.
