The "all but won" phrase was his own, but it seemed consistent with his instructions.He and a group of fellow officers went on to make the case that the mission then in progress (known as Operation Snipe, which has connotations of "wild goose chase" to American ears) did serve some purpose.
Consistent with these instructions, almost none of the households stored filtered water for their children, though many lacked a storage container even if they had chosen to do so.
For those included, missing scores were replaced with item score 1 (n = 110 children) consistent with scoring instructions [ 15].
The MDS manual stipulates that MDS diagnoses are those that affect treatment or function which is consistent with the instructions hospital coders adhere to under Medicare billing[ 36].
Of the 34 intervention schools that provided specific details about the intervention delivery, 33 schools stated that they showed the DVD at whole school assemblies, consistent with the instructions.
Laboratory criteria were refined near the end of the outbreak, resulting in the final case definition on July 18 , 2003(Tables 2 and 3); revision of the requirements for a convalescent-phase serum specimen from 21 to 28 days after illness onset was not applied retrospectively, consistent with the instructions accompanying release of this case definition.
However, this brief amount of training time is consistent with the instruction time typically utilized by therapists when first meeting with new patients.
Consistent with the developers' instructions and previous publications, the total score was computed without including the general health item.
Given this observed local dependency, the items were made into six testlets (domain scores) (which would be added together to give the overall score, and which is consistent with the scoring instructions given in the manual).
