Indeed, while improving cognitive deficits is commendable, functional outcomes are issues that should not be dismissed when considering the difficulties faced by individuals suffering from schizophrenia when trying to reintegrate the work force or create a social network.
On Saturday night in Sydney, Australia, the 32-year-old Hawaiian scrapped to an unlikely draw with leading 170-pound contender Jon Fitch and, though the result was commendable, the outcome left Penn with a confused and forlorn expression on his face.
Mr Justice Vos concluded: "It would be commendable if the outcome of this judgment were that the parties, even at this late stage, started to work collaboratively together to achieve the best possible planning permission, as they had envisaged they would under the terms of the SPA".
The committee's desire to see greater integration as a route to better outcomes is commendable and well intentioned.
Invariably the motivation of the governors was commendable, namely to accelerate improvements in outcomes for their children.
The article by Ahmed et al (2009) describes a commendable effort to investigate the oncological and functional outcomes after whole-gland high-intensity-focused ultrasound (HIFU) for localised prostate cancer.
The result was indeed commendable.
While recognizing that commitment to scale up is commendable, the study revealed deficiencies in program design and implementation that undermine outcomes.
It is commendable that two of the investigators [ 10, 27] used generic health outcomes, SF36 and SF 12 respectively.
This commendable pilot study (assessing disease-oriented end-points) should now inform a larger, adequately powered trial with patient-oriented outcomes as the primary end-point.
While the assiduity of Castleberry et al in compiling and analysing this huge data assemblage is commendable, regrettably, their conclusion that population CT screening is more cost-effective than symptomatic tumour identification at improving lung cancer (LC) outcomes is based on three demonstrably flawed premises: Survival is a valid metric of LC screening efficacy.
