In becoming the fifth left-hander to record 300 career victories, an accomplishment deemed the definitive indicator of sustained pitching excellence, Glavine joined the club nearly three years since it admitted its last member (Aug. 7, 2004), his former Braves teammate Greg Maddux.
Since 2003 patients with irresectable esophageal cancer as well as patients medically unfit for surgery, but deemed fit for definitive chemoradiation were treated in our centre with this treatment scheme.
Quantifying the current state of knowledge will help to inform dose selection decisions when evidence generation in the target population is deemed unethical or definitive sample sizes are not feasible, as may be the case, for example, when diseases are rare.
Although some significant risk factors for this slippage were identified, they are deemed not to be definitive because of similar factors being identified by the group who did not report layer slippage.
In sum, the recent publication of new epidemiology studies has not altered the state of the epidemiological data base to the point where the epidemiological data can be deemed sufficient to support a definitive causal association between occupational exposures to diesel engine exhaust and an increased risk of lung cancer.
Although overlapping surgeries are deemed generally safe, critics have suggested definitive evidence is lacking.
A subsequent definitive RCT will be deemed feasible if: An appropriate primary outcome variable is defined; The lower limit of the 90% CI for the proportion of the exercise intervention group complying with the intervention is ≥67%.
An iris fluorescein angiogram was contemplated and would have supported a more definitive diagnosis of iris microhaemangioma but was deemed clinically unnecessary at the time.
Instead, to assist with decision making about a later definitive trial, 50 patients per arm were deemed sufficient to give a reasonable indication of the likely effect size.
If they are deemed to, a blood test will be done to give definitive evidence.
