Subclinical seizures (SCSs) are characterized by paroxysmal rhythmic epileptiform discharges that evolve in time and space in the absence of objective clinical manifestation or report of a seizure.
The high incidence of symptomatic relief seen in this study, even in the absence of objective response, suggests that moderate dose chemotherapy may have a role in the palliation of NSCLC.
The finding that acid suppression consistently increases the frequency of non-acid reflux cautions against the widespread empirical use of acid suppression in IPF and GOR in the absence of objective pH or impedance testing.
For example, it is possible that simply having insurance coverage provided a sense of wellbeing and security that positively influenced answers to subjective questions in the absence of objective changes in health or access to care, as was noted in a recent randomized expansion of Medicaid in the state of Oregon in the US.
Or, as Schellenberg states this conclusion in another context, we must conclude that in the absence of objective, nonquestion-begging justification, none of the disputants in religious conflicts "has justification for supposing the others' claims false" (Schellenberg 2000, 213).
Enhancing immunity may either deliver delayed responses, or potentially hold the tumour in a state of 'clinical equilibrium', delivering prolonged survival in the absence of objective response.
Other studies from Scandinavia highlight the difficult challenge of fitness for work assessments in the presence of clinical uncertainty about the patients' presenting complaint, particularly in the absence of objective signs [ 41].
While implant removal rates in the dorsal group were also significantly higher, it was interesting that in almost half of the cases, implant removal was initiated by the patients themselves, even in the absence of objective impairment.
They also found no statistically significant differences in overall treatment time or in the time it took to achieve anterior crossbite correction and suggested that, in the absence of objective reasons for expansion such as maxillary width or space deficiencies, expansion will not aid the correction of class III malocclusions with facemask therapy.
In the absence of objective methods for evaluating the weights to be assigned to co-basin states for water allocation, a framework was conceptualised and formulated to determine the normalised weighting factors of different co-basin states as a function of the governing variables.
