Among low-volume centers, more than 60% had poor access to a partograph, greater than 35% reported unavailability of antibiotics and oxytocin, and greater than 20% lacked thermometers and bag-and-masks.
Unavailability was the greatest barrier to the use of spirometry.
We are not surprised that unavailability was the greatest barrier in this study, as only 25.2% of doctors reported having a spirometer in their current hospitals, as opposed to 66.0% in the USA, 64.2% in Australia and 90.9% in Spain [ 11, 14, 15].
Surprisingly, even among doctors with access to spirometers, unavailability was reported as the greatest barrier to the use of spirometry.
Sometimes, the unavailability of your masterpiece is the greatest gift you can give the world.
Irrespective of access to a spirometer or the type of hospital they were employed in, doctors reported that unavailability of a spirometer was the greatest barrier to its use (62.5%) followed by lack of awareness about its usefulness (17.2%).
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With forecasts of heightened obsolescence of jobs coupled with the unavailability of work for large and growing numbers of Americans -- even as scarcity is solved and incomes and wealth for the relative few continue to expand -- a collective response may gather great force.
I saw "Vertigo" for the first time in the mid-eighties, when after decades of unavailability it was brought back into circulation, to great fanfare, along with several other mid-fifties masterworks by Hitchcock.
Moreover, the unavailability of routine therapeutic drug monitoring for the great majority of these drugs makes it difficult to distinguish clinical failure due to underdosing from lack of in vivo organism susceptibility.
