Some essential information missed by the above approaches was retrieved from other Internet sources as appropriate.
Where essential information was missing, authors were contacted personally.
We show not only that the magnitude of the task is daunting, but also that the efforts so far have been disappointing and that essential information is missing.
We excluded studies if they failed to meet the inclusion criteria or essential information was missing and could not be obtained from the authors.
1,176 of these (90.7%) could be entered into the evaluation-database; the remaining 120 (9.3%) were excluded because essential information was missing on the handwritten consultations (e.g. drug strength or dosage regimen).
Information missing for 18 travelers.
Facial gesture, body language, tone of voice all encode essential information that are missing in text-based communication.
We were unable to compare the representativeness of patients in reports of both study designs because essential information was often missing.
Essential information may be missed and irreplaceably lost if macroscopic examination has been skipped.
This may cause essential information to be missed or misunderstood, and may thereby negatively affect the quality of care.
