Sentence examples for discretionary tests from inspiring English sources

The indications for medical ultrasound imaging for any site as well as other discretionary tests such as resting electrocardiogram, nuclear bone scan, and cardiac perfusion test and why the rates of use are so different between LHINs is beyond the scope of this project, but investigations of these practices could reveal information and processes that could dramatically reduce health-care costs.

The regions with the highest use of discretionary medical tests (pelvic ultrasound, abdominal ultrasound, neck ultrasound, echocardiogram, resting electrocardiogram, cardiac nuclear perfusion tests, and bone scan), highest population density, and better education had the highest rates of thyroid cancer diagnoses.

It may very well be that decreased health care access for new immigrants leads to increasing use of ad hoc medical services where discretionary laboratory tests and preventative health care interventions are less likely to occur.

Under the terms of the standard GOS contract in England, optometrists are not obliged to refine their own referrals and receive no additional remuneration for performing discretionary supplementary tests or procedures.

The rates of diagnosis varied up to four times across the medical geographic regions of Ontario and are strongly related to the variation in rates of use of discretionary medical tests including diagnostic ultrasound.

Research performed in the Canadian province of Ontario demonstrated that patient factors were relatively unimportant in determining discretionary laboratory testing, while physician factors such as specialty, practice volume and previous testing patterns were strongly associated with test ordering [ 31].

The primary aim of VLS is to compare mortality at 18 months among ART-naïve patients initiating ART and receiving care at facilities with access to routine VL testing, compared to those initiating first regimens and receiving the current standard of care (i.e., discretionary VL testing).

We designed a cluster randomized controlled trial to compare the use of routine VL testing at ART-initiation and at 3, 6, 12, and 18 months, versus our local standard of care (which uses immunological and clinical criteria to diagnose treatment failure, with discretionary VL testing when the two do not agree).

IHMS has highlighted growing concerns that cuts to mental health services, concurrent with increasing rates of detention of so-called 501s – people who have had a visa cancelled due to failing the ministerial-discretionary "character test" for alleged antisocial or illegal behaviour – will further strain resources.

Differences in the rates of the ordering of discretionary diagnostic medical tests, such as diagnostic ultrasound, in different geographic regions of Ontario lead to differences in the rates of diagnosis of thyroid cancer.

The leading test of certainty of objects here is also the "any given postulant test", applied to discretionary trusts in McPhail v Doulton.