Once the laboratory achieved pre-determined minimum standard efficiency levels based on WHO/IUATLD Supranational Reference Laboratory proficiency testing criteria for performance [29] of 80% (E and S), 89% (Inh), and 95% (Rif) in performing MGIT DST, MGIT and LJ culture and FLD DST were performed in parallel and all results were made available to clinicians.
School or government doesn't determine what kids eat, but it can definitely set minimum standards that promote healthier choices, or at least not undermine healthy nutrition efforts by condoning and profiting from the sale of junk within school walls.
Exclusion criteria were adapted from similar studies with global breadth, which resulted in a standardised method of excluding studies that did not meet rigorous pre-determined minimum standards.
The government has set minimum standards that employers must meet.
Although these minimum risk levels of 20% and 2% are somewhat arbitrary, they are supported by other member states 4 and have been adopted in the criteria determining minimum driving standards that are being harmonised across the European Union.
A reform of the Social Code Book V in 2002 allowed German health care system's contracting parties to determine minimum volume standards on those planned services whose outcome quality is especially dependant on the performance volume.
To determine appropriate CCAs, the panel reviewed guidelines from Dutch scientific associations and studied current practices to determine the minimum standards for CCAs in terms of personnel training and facilities (medical devices, available infrastructure) [18 20].
Badman said that there needed to be a further review to determine the minimum standards of education that parents should provide, but added: "At the age of eight they should be reasonably autonomous learners, competent in handling numbers, with rudimentary ICT levels and able to read".
All subjects presented hemoglobin levels >4.5 mmol per L, as required by European regulations (Directive 97/2/EC and Italian Decree Law 331/98) that determine the minimum standards for the protection of calves.
Extracts producing an inhibition zone ≥ 10 mm in diameter were considered active and were further screened to determine minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) by standard three-fold microbroth dilution methodology [ 14].
The court set out nine minimum standards.
