Examples of such factors include patients' symptoms and results of physical examination, availability of resources, availability and awareness of evidence with regard to antibiotic treatment, diagnostic uncertainty, peer practice, patient expectations, financial interests, and physicians' perceptions regarding antibiotic prescribing and resistance [ 2– 14].
These factors include the cost of the examination, the availability of an imaging technique, the expertise of the radiologist performing and interpreting the study, and potential contraindications or limitations of a patient that would prevent the use of a specific imaging technique [9].
Specific additional inclusion criteria for this study comprised 1) MCA occlusion on prebolus transcranial color coded Duplex (TCCD) examination, 2), availability of blood samples to determine fasting insulin 24 to 48 h after admission, 3) no chronic treatment with insulin before qualifying stroke, and 4) admission glycemia of <155 mg/dL.
In the emergency setting, the use of MRI is limited by lengthy examination time, scanner availability, constraints and artefacts in acutely ill patients.
More education of primary care physicians, specific examination techniques, and availability of community resources for obese persons is needed.
The present study represents, to our knowledge, the first examination of verified availability of essential drugs for mental healthcare provision in Mozambique.
The relative ease of bedside ultrasound (US) examination and the availability of user-friendly, inexpensive, portable equipment have made chest ultrasonography an interesting alternative method for diagnosis of respiratory disease.
According to the researchers, this was the first study of mercury levels in commercial fish that included examination of fish availability, cost, and consumer preference as variables in consumer choice.
Strengths of the study design include a digital measurement of birth weight to the nearest 10 grams within 24 hours of delivery, formal assessment of gestational age using the postnatal Ballard examination, and the availability of important socio-demographic, medical and obstetric variables that could confound the fuel exposure-pregnancy outcome association.
Such work may include examination of the availability of CAM practitioners [ 39, 40], the interface and/or referral between conventional and CAM practitioners [ 30], as well as the nature of the patient-practitioner relationship across conventional and CAM practice lines in rural and remote settings [ 7, 9, 41, 42].
A review of existing workforce planning methodologies, in concert with the project brief and an examination of data availability, identified that the best fit-for-purpose workforce planning methodology was the stock and flow model for estimating workforce supply and the utilisation method for estimating workforce demand.
