We review the available data on procedure-based futility policies, arguing that there is limited information on their potential harms and how these harms are distributed.
In 2004 the external quality assurance did not cover any data on procedures that fell under the minimum volume regulation.
Our findings are based on data extracted from the Hospital Episodes Statistics database which relies on hospital-coded data on procedures and indications.
These findings are based on data extracted from the Hospital Episodes Statistics database which relies on hospital-coded data on procedures and indications.
Data on procedures were not available and so all costs were inflated by 17.5%: the average difference between procedural and non-procedural admissions.
Data on procedures is coded using a list of procedures relevant to the Australian general practice context derived by means of a Delphi process prior to the study [ 20].
Citing a shortage of long-term data on the procedure, Dr. Scionti, who is based in Hilton Head Island, S.C., acknowledged, "We don't know what the results are in 10 or 15 years".
We report here main characteristics of donors, data on M3 procedure and results on renal transplant recipients.
More detailed data on the procedure are reported elsewhere [ 48].
In addition, data on surgical procedure, rehabilitation progress, adverse events and failure will be recorded.
Another patient was excluded because postoperative findings associated with a partial meniscectomy of the anterior horn of the lateral meniscus were unequivocally present on follow-up MRI, although data on the procedure were missing on the questionnaires.
