Regarding costs of blood tests, both direct costs (unitary price of a standard blood analysis, a CD4 test and an HIV-1 RNA test) and indirect costs (transport costs and time invested to reach the laboratory, productivity cost, absenteeism, quality of life and psychosocial status) should be the same for both study arms, because this study contemplated to perform the blood tests on the same site.
A feeling of fear was the main reported obstacle in performing or even contemplating to undergo an EGD.
If biomarker analyses are contemplated, then banked tumour samples may be used to perform prospective analyses prior to the primary trial analysis, potentially providing more robust data.
Although clinical trials are difficult to perform, they are feasible and clinicians must contemplate several specific problems when evaluating the efficacy of a drug in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
I contemplate to myself what he might be contemplating.
In such a world, people could surely still feel that they themselves were capable of performing heinously evil actions, and they would contemplate performing such actions, but in the end their sense of the great wrongness of the actions would triumph over their selfish reasons for wanting to perform the actions in question.
The solutions varied from removing some bone in the base of his skull to procedures so nightmarishly invasive it was hard to believe they could be contemplated, much less performed, by sane men.
And it is balance that I will contemplate as I perform my yoga practice of 108 Sun Salutations.
Produced by the writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam and directed by Chiara Clemente, the series has an unexpected lightness, as the stars contemplate questions about performing in New York as opposed to not, dealing with critics, health care, and so on.
Thus, a minimum level of threat or concern must exist before people start contemplating the benefits of possible actions and ruminate their competence to actually perform them (Schwarzer 1992).
There are some things that we think are worth knowing about, the knowledge of which would not change the expected value of any action that one might be contemplating performing.
