We used the standardized examination procedures developed by The Nordic Cryptorchidism Study Group, and all examinations were performed by one pediatrician, who also examined most of the boys born in the Copenhagen area.
Prolonged viremia developed in 15 (50%) of 30 chicks; hemangiomas developed in the skin surrounding phalanges and in the liver of 3 (10%); and myeloid leukosis, detected by gross or histologic examination, developed in 10 (30.3%).
These UK surveys use the well documented visual examination method developed by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry BASCDD) [ 2].
The visual examination method developed by BASCD against which the intra-oral photographic assessment method has been evaluated in this study is one of many.
The second part gathered detailed information about the knowledge level of the final - year students, relying on the validated "Palliative Care Examination" tool developed by Weissman et al. [ 12, 13].
Participants completed the identical examination originally developed by Freedman and Bernstein to assess knowledge in musculoskeletal medicine among physician interns, [ 7] and more recently administered to medical students, residents, and a variety of physician specialists [ 12].
The 147 workers who fulfilled the inclusion criteria based on the screening questionnaire were invited to a neck and upper limb clinical examination originally developed by Ohlsson et al. (1994) and later modified as described in detail by Juul-Kristensen et al. (2006).
This was a cross-sectional, method comparison study comparing an established visual examination method developed by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry BASCDD) for the nationally coordinated NHS epidemiological surveys of children in the UK with a photographic assessment method in a sample of 5-year-old and 10-/11-year-old 10-/11-year-old 10-/11-year-old 10-/11-year-old
The Mini- Mental- State- Examination (MMSE), developed by Folstein and McHugh [ 53], is a screening instrument for cognitive impairment, and has a fair reliability and construct validity, with a high sensitivity for moderately-severe cognitive impairment and a lower sensitivity for mild cognitive impairment [ 54].
A standardized protocol for the physical examinations has been developed by the researcher (JS) and two senior researchers with ≥ 10 years of experiences in both physiotherapy and research (SB-Z and PL).
Initial coding on a subset of interviews was conducted independently by two Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists (one of whom, AB, is an experienced qualitative researcher) and finalised by consensus; the codes were expanded as additional data was examined and altered as iterative examination of the data developed by the research worker created a comprehensive analytic framework.
