A caesarean was defined as appropriate when it met at least one criterion for appropriateness as defined by national guidelines or if the experts conducting the review classified it as appropriate, even in the absence of a specific criterion.
Generally, the statistical methods are defined as appropriate techniques to study the processes trends.
Antibiotic therapy was defined as appropriate if the S. aureus isolate from the blood culture was susceptible to that antibiotic in vitro.
17 Only MRI studies including short axis images were defined as appropriate.
Delayed antibiotic treatment was defined as appropriate antibiotic treatment given to VAT patients more than 24 h after VAT diagnosis.
For the high risk group, the administration of any of the above listed therapies was defined as appropriate.
Antibiotics prescribed on admission were defined as "appropriate" if they were respiratory fluroqualone alone or a combination of advance macrolide and beta-lactum antibiotics.
A feature was defined as "appropriate" with an overall panel median score of ≥ 7 and a level of agreement of ≥ 70%% within the 3-point region 7 9.
The weight gain in the non-excessive group was defined as appropriate if within the Institute of Medicine recommendations (11.5 16.0, 7.0–11.5 and 5.0 9.0 kg, respectively) or as insufficient if below (Fig. 1).
A scenario was defined as appropriate if the panel's median score was between 7 and 9 without disagreement and inappropriate if the median score was between 1 and 3 without disagreement.
This genotyping method and the enzymes used were defined as appropriate, comparing PFGE patterns of our clinical isolates with C. striatum ATCC 6940 type strain, which was different with respect to the epidemic strains.
