Consulting behaviour and number of examinations, duration of disease and variables regarding adherence to guidelines were evaluated, too.
Controlling for the endogeneity of outsourcing decision as well as the changes in the time resources available for an examiner, we find that the outsourcing of prior art search significantly decreases the frequency of appeals against both examiners' rejections and grant decisions and reduces the length of examination duration.
In order to minimise examination duration the order of sequences can be adjusted.
In this study, we conduct a replication and extension of Harhoff and Wagner's (2009) work on the determinants of patent examination duration at the European Patent Office EPOO), using a rich dataset covering the population of about 1.1 million invention patent applications to China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) from 1993 to 2006.
Second, because of the considerable shortening of the total examination duration by eliminating the transmission scan, the patient's burden, in particular, the need to stay still, would be reduced.
Regarding examination duration, it is important to note that this not only included examination duration, but also the setting-up of the skin guard, thus increasing the total measuring time with the MP-BV compared to the inclinometer.
Diagnosis of MTBI is based on physical and neurological examination findings, duration of unconsciousness (usually less than 30 minutes) and post-traumatic amnesia (PTA; usually less than 24 hours), and the Glasgow Coma Scale (MTBI sufferers have scores of 13 to 15).
A second limitation is the lack of information about some relevant screening procedures such as blood pressure measurement, BMI determination, foot examination, and duration of disease, not recorded in administrative databases; the latter, however, should not affect adherence to guidelines.
Our objective was to evaluate the impact of implementation of a protocol-based ultrasound examination on the duration of ultrasound examinations, examination completion, and accuracy of documentation.We conducted a case-cohort study.
Patient characteristics, number of examinations, and duration of follow-up are summarised in Table 1.
