Dialysis service-centres with between 5 and 10 chairs were characterised by a higher degree of familiarity between patients and staff, as well as between patients themselves, than was seen in larger service-centres, where chairs numbered upwards of 20 and more.
Proxy reports of familiarity with patients' medications, activity and mood were unrelated to agreement with patient reports on any scale.
We examine how the design features underlying these ethical issues are characteristic of effectiveness trials, which are often large trials that compare treatments with varying degrees of existing effectiveness data and familiarity to patients and clinicians, in community-based treatment settings, with minimal exclusion criteria that could involve vulnerable populations.
Two other environmental factors, which are often related, are the organization of cross-covering, and familiarity with patients.
This is in accordance with previous findings, where a lack of familiarity with patients was found to compromise assessments and the decision- making process [ 10].
Because of their proximity, flexible payment options and familiarity with patients' belief systems, among other things, local NDAPs are physically, financially and culturally accessible.
Stakeholders felt the key strengths of medical malls were more convenient access including public transportation, greater familiarity for patients, and "one stop shopping" for primary care and specialty services as well as retail needs.
In Bangladesh, the understanding and caring nature of providers in private facilities was attributed, by the study researchers, to the providers familiarity with patients' cultural practices and communities [ 34].
Casual attitudes towards dose checking were often discussed in relation to slips, whereas both types of execution failure shared common causal elements in equipment design (eg, look-a-like medicines), distractions and familiarity with patients.
As this was an effectiveness trial, the participant inclusion criteria were designed to be a best approximate to the real world primary care setting and hence there was a range of severity in mental health, familiarity of patients to GPs, and current mental health treatment programs.
