For the purpose of the current publication there was no information that could identify the patient personally.
MJA has undertaken contract research projects (unrelated to the current publication) for a variety of companies including; 3M, bioMerieux, Olympus, Case Medical, Intelligent Hospital Systems, Johnson & Jonson, Novaflux, STERIS and Virox.
MJA has undertaken contract research projects (unrelated to the current publication) for a variety of companies including; 3 M, bioMerieux, Olympus, Case Medical, Intelligent Hospital Systems, Johnson & Johnson, Novaflux, STERIS and Virox.
MJA has undertaken contract research projects (unrelated to the current publication) for a variety of companies including: 3 M, bioMerieux, Olympus, Case Medical, Intelligent Hospital Systems, Johnson & Johnson, STERIS and Virox.
The current publication was developed in line with the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES) [ 13].
Other constraints are not implemented in the current publication.
Publication productivity has an inverted U-shaped relation with patent counts, but the overall effect is still largely positive, given the current publication levels.
We sent a standardised email to seek clarification of the reason for discontinuation or current publication status, with one reminder scheduled two weeks later (BS and HM, checked by SJC).
Shigeru Toyoda received a lecture fee from the sponsoring company for activities outside this current publication.
As a starting point for our approach, a current (publication date: July 2012) systematic review on reviews on QATs [ 17] was used.
