The discrepancy in knowledge found among healthcare workers was not totally unexpected due to health service structure in Pakistan.
The discrepancy in knowledge found among the healthcare workers working in specialties of pediatrics and psychiatry in our study is consistent with findings of previous surveys of knowledge about childhood autism among healthcare workers that had documented some differences and misconceptions about various aspects of childhood autism across disciplines [ 18- 20].
Such discrepancies in anatomical knowledge between doctors and patients can have significant effects in the consultation, and on subsequent patient satisfaction and adherence [ 5, 6].
In such an environment, we also expect the system to tolerate discrepancies in users' knowledge of the database scheme and to allow flexibility by not demanding strict schema adherence in user queries.
There was a big variation among respondents as to when consent should be sought (Table 2) indicating a discrepancy in the knowledge and practice of informed consent by surgeons.
In line with Long (2003), we defined this social interface as "a critical point of intersection between different life worlds, social fields or levels of social organisation, where social discontinuities based upon discrepancies in values, interests, knowledge and power, are most likely to be located".
This calls for collaborative partnerships between community groups and external change agents that are characterised by trust and transcend discrepancies in values, interests, knowledge and power.
To our best knowledge, discrepancies in terms of gene-specific residual variance across different biological conditions (groups or arrays) have never been considered in the microarray literature.
Additional aspects of service delivery that impeded the provision of services included lack of knowledge, discrepancies in provider practice, a judgmental manner of communication, and lack of time, training and organizational cessation protocols.
