A hearing held Tuesday by several House subcommittees was meant to be an examination of the methods used to calculate an oft-contested metric known as the social cost of carbon, a way of quantifying the costs — environmental, health-related or otherwise — of emitting on additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
For a broader examination of both the methods used to reach the current estimates and details on each of the estimated costs, as well as analysis of the significance and limitations of the study, see Bouchery and colleagues (2011, 2013).
In addition, a questionnaire was included to gather information regarding the participants' work experience, education, preferred method of retinal examination, methods used for retinal examination in patients with diabetes, and methods available to them for retinal examination and imaging.
In this regard, the varying proportion of pCR observed in previous studies might have been due to the difference in dissection and examination methods used in each laboratory.
This was a prospective, observational study using an assessment tool to evaluate learner satisfaction with four different examination methods used in a cross-cultural medical training program.
Prior studies have evaluated the degree to which the instrument or exam measures what it is supposed to measure (validity) and the reproducibility or consistency in the scores (reliability) of different examination methods used in clinical-year medical exams [ 3, 4, 7].
It is likely that the examination method used in rapid assessments represents an over-diagnosis of cataract because the posterior segment cannot be assessed as carefully as in a detailed examination and because a complete examination for glaucoma is not possible without assessing the visual fields.
These findings show that the photographic method used in this study detected more DDE than both the direct clinical examination method used in this study and the photographic methods used in other studies at both subject and tooth level.
Radiological examination of the lung is the primary method used to determine the presence of UIP and a diagnosis of IPF and is also used to help monitor the progression of fibrosis and stage of severity of disease [ 1].
The present study utilized an examination method using silicone [11, 12, 16].
