Objectives: The goal was to determine the features of clinical usage of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in this country in terms of utilization, indications, and practice and demographic characteristics of those who use FNA.
However, utilization, indications, and practice patterns surrounding in-office BSD remain unclear.
Categorization of patients may also be helpful for future external and internal validations in order to compare institutional variations in indications and practice of ECMO.
There are a number of limitations to this study, which stem partly from the sensitivity of the subject and its relatively small scope, and partly from the methodological challenges of studying a phenomenon which is associated with such intense debate about its definition, indications and practice.
Bivariate analyses (using the Chi-square test for differences in proportions and T-test for differences in means) to assess the associations between demographic factors, clinical indications and screening practices will follow.
Several approaches were taken to minimize the heterogeneity of the population, including restricting the age to patients older than 40, selection of common indications and excluding practices that are not commonly performed, such as T-cell depletion, cord blood and use of mismatched URD.
While these treatment practices may be accounted for by differential indications and current practice guidelines, it is possible that differences in treatment may have partially accounted for the improved long-term survival we observed in patients with STEMI.
Opportunities and indications for and practice of HH during anesthetic care were monitored using a modified version of the WHO's HH observational method [ 16].
Several indications for research and practice regarding reliability and validity of the SDQ follow from this review.
Yet he continued to look to the future, suggesting further areas of inquiry and speculating that more recent findings about the Maasai, which seemed to contradict his own, were simply an indication of how much belief and practices had changed over the past 50 years.
