Patricia McDonough, the senior vice president for planning, policy and analysis at Nielsen, said the swift adoption of high definition confirmed that "people are constantly looking for the best picture they can get".
Patients with PAH (WHO group 1 pulmonary hypertension; Venice 2003 definition), confirmed by right-sided heart catheterization, were enrolled consecutively from March 2006 through December 2009 after providing informed consent.
Conversely, the use of a less sensitive, more specific case definition (confirmed cases only) would likely result in a failure to include some true HUS cases.
An extension of this re-analysis with the POET data set, using a standardized case definition, confirmed that the original difference in case definition was not the cause of the observed AOM efficacy difference.
VDOH provided antiviral treatment to those who met the case definition (confirmed or suspected case) and whose symptom onset was within 48 hours and provided antiviral prophylaxis to household contacts.
Reflection on what is implied in the quest for definitions confirms that Plato cannot have been blind to the sterility of a purely negative way of argument, or if he was blind at first, his blindness cannot have lasted long.
Systematic review of definitions confirmed that researchers tend to define felid behavior in similar manners, although some divergence was found between the inclusion of behaviors in domestic and exotic (non-domestic) cat studies.
Dictionary definitions confirm what the plain text says: Until a State is redistricted in the manner provided by the law thereof means [u]ntil a State is redistricted in the manner provided by the law thereof. The meaning of the word until is not difficult to understand, nor is it some specialized term of art.
After medical record review, cases were assigned to 1 of 3 case definitions: confirmed, probable, and noncase.
All potential upper gastrointestinal perforations, ulcers and bleeds (PUBs) and all potential cardiovascular thrombotic events (including cardiac, peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular events) were reviewed by independent blinded adjudication committees, who determined if they were confirmed events according to pre-specified case definitions (confirmed adjudicated events) [ 6].
