They participated in five standardised ad libitum lunches, under controlled laboratory conditions: subjects ate alone; in groups; listening to a detective story on the radio; watching television (no food cues); watching food advertisements on television.
One in ten standardised tests was reviewed by an independent psychologist.
The electronic prescription rate was measured by calculating the number of electronic prescriptions (e-RXs) per 100 visits, and the electronic prescription speed was defined as the time (in minutes) to write three standardised prescriptions electronically.
Physicians varied in computer-based prescribing proficiency with a range in the time required to write three standardised prescriptions of 2.8 10.4 min. Most physicians (82%) set the drug alert preference to view only severe alerts.
In Malawi, five standardised outcomes are reported: 1) alive and on therapy (implies ART retention); 2) dead; 3) stopped treatment; 4) transferred to another facility, and 5) lost to follow-up (defined as missing a clinic appointment by two months or more).
We took non-simultaneous photographic pairs of seven standardised fields in each eye and then viewed them with a Donaldson Stereoviewer, which provided a three dimensional representation of the fundus and enabled microaneurysms to be more easily distinguished from haemorrhages and artefacts.
Finally, in the third school academic year, four standardised activities were introduced that reinforced the eight lifestyle topics implemented in the previous two academic years.
Primary care physicians across five countries in Europe conducted videoed consultations with six standardised COPD patients (played by trained actors) which had patient-specific issues that the physician needed to identify through questioning.
Our dependent variables are the two standardised productivity measures described in Eqs.
24 Six standardised questionnaires, also used in previous CTC studies, 9 25 were given to all participants.
