The recommendations contained within the unit guidelines were compared against twelve recommendations in the RCOG guideline based upon the strongest grade of evidence.
Then, the innovation policy tools are clustered, based upon the Grey grades derived by GRA.
Each optic nerve was independently examined by three investigators masked to the animals' status and assigned a damage grade based upon the number of damaged axons, the overall organization of the optic nerve, and the frequency of gliotic changes [ 11, 19].
First, subjects self-reported their grades based upon the US convention of using the letters "A" through "F", in which "A" grades denote the highest marks and "F" grades denote failing marks.
In Singapore, tracking begins at Grade 7 based upon the students' academic performance in the national examinations taken at the end of Grade 6. Depending on the scores, students are tracked into Express, Normal Academic (NA), and Normal Technical (NT) streams.
This grading matrix, similar to CHNRI and GRADE is based upon the quality of evidence and the importance of outcomes (see Articles 1 and 3).
AEs were graded based upon the CTCAE 4.0.
Toxicity was graded based upon the SWOG CTC profile (Green and Weiss, 1992) and was recorded at 4-weekly intervals throughout the study.
Samples were graded based upon the percent of positive control staining above negative control staining, with a positive test being >25% above background.
H&E-stained, sagittal sections of the entire brain from all available mice were evaluated by an ACVP-board-certified veterinary pathologist (P.L.M ., and the tumors were graded based upon the current World Health Organization (WHO) classification for human astrocytomas (Raza et al., 2004; Raza et al., 2002).
