Aging criteria are interpreted and subjectively applied based on the practitioner's experience with skeletal remains and their familiarity with the practical application of the technique.
Further studies to develop tools assessing de qi based on the practitioner's feeling or senses should be conducted, and for that, various approaches considering the interaction between practitioners and patients and the historical meaning of de qi should be used.
The migraine incidence rate was found as 3.69 cases per 1000 person-years, in a study based on the general practitioners' records in UK [18].
We addressed this issue by comparing the cohort members with the source population based on the general practitioner-recorded prevalence rates of various disorders.
CRP and PCT assays were performed based on the emergency practitioner's own initiative in 70 patients for CRP and 131 for PCT, or performed a posteriori on plasma samples of the remaining patients.
Lastly, the MHM indicators developed for the toolkit were also extensively revised and simplified based on the feedback from practitioners.
Based on the interviews with practitioners, the most common outcomes (or outputs) of the foresight process are reports, documents, presentations, publications, videos, or posters.
The power analysis is based on the proportion of practitioners that report an outcome (e.g. performing BIs) following the intervention compared to baseline.
In retrospect, the inspection of complexion has been studied in TCM for a long time; however, it is still mainly based on the observations with practitioners' nude eyes.
However, most of the assessment tools used clinically are subjective based on the observation of practitioners, such as the Fugl-Meyer Assessment [ 11] for evaluation of upper limb motor function and the Modified Ashworth Scores for assessing muscular spasticity [ 12].
