It does exclude intentional self-harm and accidents.
Mr. Eugene Fidell, in his 24 April post on Just Security, offered a "primer" on how the U.S. military justice system deals with what he refers to as "Operational Mishaps," a phrase he defines as excluding "intentional misconduct". While informative, he raises several issues that compel a response.
An accidental fall is defined as "inadvertently coming to rest on the ground, floor or other lower level excluding intentional change in position to rest on the furniture, wall or other objects" [ 7].
A fall was defined as "inadvertently coming to rest on the ground, floor, or other lower level, excluding intentional changes in position to rest on furniture, walls or other objects" [ 8].
4 In addition, iatrogenic disease has been defined by Darchy et al 5 as a disease induced by a drug prescribed by a physician, after a medical or surgical procedure (excluding intentional overdose, nonmedical intervention) unauthorized prescription, and environmental events (eg, falls, defective equipment).
First, despite efforts by the trauma registrar coordinators and investigators to identify abuse (review medical records including social work, ED, child advocacy, hospital summary and discharge notes), it is possible the research team was unable to identify and exclude all intentional injury cases based on available data.
The ventricular-coupled paces were delivered 10 ms after the individually measured effective refractory period (ERP = 321 ± 41 ms), and atrial rate support at 45 bpm (excluding the intentional premature beats) was provided during DCCP, if necessary.
Waiting until being older or married was defined as intentional abstinence; other reasons (e.g., "it just hasn't happened yet") were excluded from the intentional abstinence category.
The analysis had a limited focus, in that it included only fully published economic analyses reporting an ICER (i.e., cost-of-illness studies were excluded); however, this was intentional in order to reflect the decision-maker perspective.
In order to identify homogeneous compositional groups, hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted with Minitab15 software, using a Ward linkage algorithm and squared Euclidean distance after standardization, taking into account the major elements and excluding the possible intentional colouring and decolouring agents (Sb, Mn).
