Given recent advances in and wider availability of complex imaging, physicians are expected to understand imaging appropriateness.
The expected benefits are improved appropriateness in medical imaging referrals, reduction in unnecessary radiation exposure, a more reliable justification process, better accountability through a structured workflow, and a streamlined clinical workflow.
This study is expected to improve the appropriateness of psychotropic drug prescription for neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients with dementia by introducing a structured and repeated multidisciplinary medication review supported by education and continuous evaluation.
The chanting was both inappropriate and inaccurate, but perhaps it is too much to expect accuracy and appropriateness from an angry gathering of about 20.
In line with feature-parsing and inference models, and with the bulk of empirical data, we expected an impact of the appropriateness of the phonemic context.
The concept of appropriateness was inextricably linked with expected patient prognosis and availability of appropriate services; doctors were more willing to investigate and treat those with a good prognosis or where services were easily accessible.
As expected, the participants agreed on the appropriateness of using cesarean section in a large proportion of scenarios presenting as chronic distress, abnormal presentation, hemorrhage and premature rupture of membrane, and fetal anomaly.
Following Ehlers and Clark's (2000) model of PTSD it was expected that key indicators for the appropriateness of a PTSD treatment protocol would be: "nowness" of trauma memories and intensity of affect; poorly elaborated memory of the trauma; emotional numbing, and generalized negative meanings of the trauma.
Appropriateness was defined as meaning that the "expected health benefit exceeds the expected negative consequences by a sufficiently wide margin to make cataract surgery worth performing".
The expected benefits for Canada are the improved appropriateness of examinations, reduction in unnecessary radiation exposure, streamlined clinical workflow, and shortened wait lists.
