Patients diagnosed with primary lung cancer (including mesothelioma) or distant metastatic disease from other types of cancer (excluding haematological malignancies) were excluded, as it is highly unlikely that detection of incidental imaging characteristics will alter clinical decision-making in patients with a very poor prognosis.
For example, in attempting to clarify the nature and effects of complex interventions such as acupuncture, Paterson and Dieppe [ 3] usefully differentiate characteristic from incidental (placebo) effects; characteristic effects of an intervention are defined as being 'theoretically derived, unique to a specific treatment, and believed to be causally responsible for the outcome' (p1202).
The high mortality in Del-group would primarily be ascribed to the high prevalence of premature delivery, although it is unknown whether the high prevalence of premature delivery is an incidental finding or characteristic of Del-group.
Furthermore, detailed necropsies of four TG mice at the age of 21 months revealed incidental other tumors characteristic of older FVB/N mice including an adrenal pheochromocytoma and a mammary carcinoma (data not shown).
Here we describe the frequency and characteristics of incidental medical diagnoses in a large cohort of healthy clinical trial volunteers.
9 10 16 18 Other terms have been suggested, such as non-specific effect, non-characteristic effect, incidental effects, meaning response, placebo components and context effects, as applied in this study.
What is defined as a characteristic and incidental effect will depend on the underlying therapeutic framework that informs the work, for example in the context of acupuncture, a biomedical or Chinese medicine framework.
Fortunately, an incidental "themisscan" operation clarified detailed characteristics of wavy structures propagating northward along the radar beam 4. Initial disturbances arrived at the radar FOV at around 1457 JST, about 11 min later after the mainshock.
To assess the discrimination of the risk index between individuals with and without incidental AD the receiver operating characteristics (ROC), the area under the ROC curve (AUC) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated.
Research has shown that we are more likely to buy from people whom we trust and like – and we trust and like people who are more like us, even when the characteristics we share are incidental.
