The plan approved Friday calls for national regulators to conduct the tests on the basis of common criteria drafted with the European Commission.
FY developed inclusion and exclusion criteria, drafted and revised the manuscript, contributed to the study design, analysis, and interpretation of the data.
The categorization of economic status was derived from the economic classification criteria drafted by the Brazilian Advertising Association, which classifies the population into five socioeconomic categories based on the educational level of the head of the household, consumer goods owned (e.g., VCRs, DVDs, color TVs) and access to household help [ 10].
"We have only late this afternoon seen the royal charter that the political parties have agreed between themselves and, more pertinently, the recognition criteria, early drafts of which contained several deeply contentious issues which have not yet been resolved with the industry".
In order to standardize metabolic response assessment with 18 F-FDG PET, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) recommendations and more recently the PERCIST criteria were drafted as guidance for clinical practice [5,6].
The "Levels" subgroup of the Working Party addressed each of these criteria while drafting a revision of the evidence hierarchy.
CC, PB, GL and LP performed most of the analyses on collected data, suggested and elaborated most of data interpretation criteria, and drafted the manuscript.
MR reviewed the primary literature, participated in the development of evaluation criteria, and drafted the manuscript, JB reviewed the primary literature, participated in the development of evaluation criteria, and contributed to the drafting of the manuscript, MC reviewed the primary literature and contributed to the drafting of the manuscript.
