Score systems as the organ injury scale (OIS) drawn up by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma are a valuable guidance for objective trauma assessment.
Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay have no specific policies, but general guidance and objectives for research for health are provided through national programs and could be understood as a policy.
It will have to issue a new fact sheet or admit that it can no longer provide objective guidance on matters that inflame social conservatives.
A major challenge in managing patients with 'white dot syndromes' is the lack of sensitive measures of disease activity that can provide objective guidance for treatment decisions.
Especially in today's economic climate, families need relevant, real-time advice from professionals who offer objective guidance on a range of financial issues.
However, the level 1 data should provide guidance in developing objective measures for level 3 characterization.
Massive overdoses from multiple sedatives, analgesics, and even musculoskeletal paralytic agents are a real possibility when regimens have no objective guidance.
The development of a survival probability tool or more sophisticated tools to estimate gain of quality adjusted life years would enable the development and implementation of more objective guidance for patients on the potential benefits of renal transplantation.
We aimed to minimise reporting bias by defining the research questions at the beginning of the project and the researcher (TB) was experienced in the topic and with the interview population. 1 In addition, the advisory group provided objective guidance in forming the research questions and in reviewing the findings.
For these reasons, in the absence of objective guidance dictating inclusion and exclusion thresholds to determine access to transplantation for patients starting renal replacement treatment, prescribing the minimum percentage of patients who should be activated on the renal transplant waiting list in every centre would be difficult.
