Firstly, it highlighted problematic items which subsequently could be adapted.
However, such a comparison is problematic as firstly there might be different referral behaviour across different time periods because of, for example, the government initiative of the '2-week rule' for urgent referral (Department of Health, 2000a).
Firstly, only a minority of segments were problematic, suggesting that self-reporting habit may not always incur difficulties.
However, as part of their overall risk assessment, they firstly tried to establish the consistency of the problematic values.
Firstly: said cardiovascular stresses should only be considered possibly problematic after long-term noise exposure – as in 20 years living on Kingsland Road.
Firstly, the lack of continuity of care is particularly problematic in the public healthcare setting due to fast turnover of doctors and patients not being given a choice on who they would like to consult.
Firstly, the representativeness of the sample analyzed here could be problematic.
"He said what about Toronto ladies?" Firstly, this whole branding of a "Toronto girl" is a bit problematic, don't you think?
Firstly, nursing care rationing needs to be openly recognized as a problematic area in nursing and a threat to patient safety [ 7] that requires consideration in policy development.
Firstly, Field's argument is carefully formulated so as to avoid any appeal to problematic causal theories of knowledge.
