This is the first study anywhere near its size that I have seen in which the subjects' physical activity was measured not by self-reporting or observation but electronically; each subject wore an "accelerometer" that recorded motion every minute for four to seven days.
Presided over by Arthur Grice, a scaffolding magnate, the Fez is much like a not-very-open prison: watched over by a private police force and ultra-sophisticated surveillance equipment, its residents are electronically tagged, subject to curfews and summary detention and rarely allowed to leave its scruffy precincts.
Information in the databases of the Saskatchewan Prescription Drug Plan and the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency was linked electronically using subjects' unique personal health care identification numbers; see Rawson et al (1992).
All interview subjects verbally consented to the study; survey subjects electronically consented to the study.
He will be electronically tagged and subject to a night time curfew for four months.
Anonymous unit record cause data for 1997 2009 are available electronically upon request, subject to a data user's agreement.
At a selected end-expiration the valves switched electronically, allowing the subject to inspire one bolus of test gas to total lung capacity and then rebreathe this bolus in and out of an anesthetic bag for 12 16 s while gas concentrations at the mouth were monitored.
On 3 November, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala proposed new regulations that researchers must follow in order to access and use electronic human subject information--to offer federal protection of medical and health research data generated, stored, or transmitted electronically.
An adverse events questionnaire was administered to subjects electronically every week to monitor any negative effects related to exercise, including pain, muscle fatigue, cramping, and soreness.
Although provider questionnaires relied on self-report, medical records were electronically audited and not subject to selection bias.
