To assess the quality of clinical case handling at out of hours centres, telephone incognito standardised patients presented seven different clinical cases three times each to 17 different out of hours centres over a period of 12 months, totalling 357 calls.
For example, Derkx and colleagues evaluated quality of calls at Dutch out of hours centres using telephone standardised patients.
The current data show that aggregated hurling injury rates are lower than those recorded in the single year snapshot taken in 2007, 102.5/1000 h (84.4 to 123.2) for matches and 5.3 (4.2 to 6.5) for training; RR=19.5 (14.8 to 25.6), 7 suggesting that incidence standardised for hours exposure has declined in subsequent years.
"It" is the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), a three-hour standardised test required by many American business schools and accepted by many of their European counterparts.
Pupils take a two-hour standardised test, and then spend up to an hour filling out a questionnaire on their learning habits, background and family.
The bolus and infusions were administered using a syringe infusion pump (DigiPump SR8x, Digicare Animal Health, Boynton Beach, FL, USA) and maintained for three hours, where the volumes were standardised with a bolus of 17 min10 min and CRI of 50 mL/h such that the observers were blinded to the treatment.
Oxfam has worked with domestic employees to draw up a code of conduct to ensure salaries are paid on time, hours are regulated and breaks are standardised.
In study 2, in which the duration of urine collection was not standardised, the median collection interval was 12 hours (range 1.92-22.75 hours), and at least 160 ml of urine were obtained.
Figure 6 Theft on the London Underground by time of day (standardised by passenger volumes and available hours in each time period).
Incubation times were standardised to a base unit of hours - our observations indicate that a wide range of incubation periods are used in cytotoxicity screens (2 hours to 145 hours) and they can vary within the same tissue type, or assay technology.
The triagists referred 2% of the telephone incognito standardised patients to the out of hours centre in the region of their permanent residence without any triage.
