DRR implies a mandate; it refers to the exploration and implementation of measures to prevent risk constellations or to lessen their effects and support functioning and resilience (UNISDR 2009).
The referral system is organized such that difficult conditions are referred for better management from lower to higher levels of care as referring implies a significant gradient in knowledge as well as competences and skills.
This process implies a re-stabilization phase, usually referred to as reconsolidation.
The main limitation is sample loss inherent to studies of this kind, since the voluntary nature of participation and the population characteristics referred to age, etc., implies a certain loss of subjects versus the initially estimated sample size.
Thirdly, it can imply a 'holistic' denotation, referring to all and everything which impacts on health, ranging from biological, molecular levels to 'higher' (or other) levels by building complex 'assemblages'higherher' is hyphenated since the author does not attempt to attribute scale to 'levels' in terms of micro-macro binaries).
This implies a different model, which we propose here and refer to as the holistic model.
Where associations are referred to as statistically significant, this implies a p-value of < 0.05.
This refers to a safety pyramid, which implies a systematic approach for every surgical case.
Cancer stem cells, as the name implies, refer to a subpopulation of cancer cells similar to human normal stem cells [1], [7] that have the capacity for self-renewal, differentiation into multiple cancer cell lineages, and extensive proliferation [7], [10], [16].
Where associations are referred to as statistically or marginally significant associations, this implies a p-value < 0.05 or < 0.1, respectively.
