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.
The present study represents, to our knowledge, the first examination of verified availability of essential drugs for mental healthcare provision in Mozambique.
More education of primary care physicians, specific examination techniques, and availability of community resources for obese persons is needed.
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.
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].
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.
Crowding is influenced by the number of patients and medical personnel, the number of beds in the ED and the number of available beds in the hospital as well as by waiting times for laboratory results and radiology examinations and the availability of consulting specialists.
To minimize examinee waiting time, HESA schedules the various parts of each examinee's checkup for times when the examinee is available, taking the sequence of the examination procedures and the availability of the resources required into account.
CT is the modality of choice for evaluation of acute aortic syndrome, because of the speed of the examination and the widespread availability of CT.
