Sentence examples for extraneous interventions from inspiring English sources

One kind morning I got myself to a meeting with a marvellous occupational therapist, Nicky deCourcy, who stolidly laid out a few facts, among them the detail that I wouldn't be able to cope for a while with more than two extraneous interventions – quiet TV plus reading, say, or radio plus writing – and that sudden urgent sounds would send me, in the medical terminology, a bit wacko.

6 To reflect more usual practice, no such measures were taken in evaluating the IDEAS chart, indicating perhaps that a number of errors, like illegibility and poor prescriber identifiability, are rectifiable without the need for further extraneous interventions by addressing the choice architecture inherent in inpatient prescribing.

The randomisation of wards to conditions made it possible to separate the effects of the intervention from extraneous factors in a way that a pre- and post-test within a single setting could not.

We hope that by controlling for extraneous aspects of patients' treatment that is unrelated to the treatment they receive as part of the study, differences in the outcomes between the usual care and intervention arms will be more prominent.

Although randomisation of the interventions was not feasible, extraneous factors were kept constant and adjusted for.

This is particularly the case where extraneous environmental factors out-with the intervention and psycho-social factors internal to the participants may contaminate and dilute the intervention effect.

A possible explanation is that the desktop virtual reality instructional intervention has helped to reduce extraneous cognitive load and engages learners in active processing of instructional material to increase germane cognitive load.

Future trials might correlate interview data such as that presented here with outcome data from biomedical interventions in trials to see whether extraneous factors might be causative in amelioration of problems.

The potential influence of demand and expectancy on treatment outcome is an issue of concern for a range of interventions so it is worth considering whether such extraneous participant factors could potentially carry effects derived from ABM interventions.

However, as it was not possible within the scope of this study to achieve a true experimental design a quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent control groups where the intervention can be separated from effects due to extraneous variables is preferred [ 23].

Given the concomitant changes in extraneous variables such as medication use and lifestyle risk factors that occurred around the interventions, it is difficult to ascertain which specific aspects of the intervention led to the improvements in blood pressure seen within these reviews and included studies.