Dr. Muriel Gillick, author of a recent journal article advocating that nursing homes and hospitals end the widespread use of stomach tubes to feed people with advanced Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, brings to light the necessity of re-evaluating widespread use of seemingly benign measures to prolong life (news article, Jan . 20.
The authors suggested that faxed feedback should be carefully evaluated before widespread use because when used alone, it was inadequate.
Nuclear expression by tumour cells was evaluated as widespread (>75% of cells per section), focal (<75% of cells per section), or absent (no nuclear staining).
8 The review further concluded that studies of programmes better adapted to current circumstances need to be implemented and rigorously evaluated before widespread implementation of such programmes can be recommended.
The study will be restricted to RCTs and systematic reviews/meta-analyses as these represent the highest forms of research evidence, and should be the standard against which any clinical practice is evaluated before widespread implementation.
In this background, the current paper evaluates the widespread impact of implementing NFSA on the Indian economy.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the widespread clinical assumption that early respiratory failure following burn and inhalation injury is due to interstitial fluid accumulation in the lung.
They examined all students' vaccination status and distributed a questionnaire to students and staff members to evaluate how widespread potential symptoms of the illness were in their households.
Also, the nature of the dataset allowed us to study predisposing variables and thus to evaluate the widespread practice in the insurance business of emphasizing strictly medical variables as predictors of subsequent sickness absence.
To evaluate how widespread the emergence of environmental isolates as causes of clinical infections may be, we used a highly discriminatory and transportable typing method to study isolates from several large bacterial culture collections.
