Two assessors performed all initial and subsequent assessments but were blinded to baseline scores to ensure independent collection of outcome data.
This information, when combined with the data obtained from initial and subsequent assessments, will help researchers accurately interpret the findings at the end of the trial.
Initial and subsequent assessments will identify the direction of repeated movements or sustained positions that lead to improvement or centralisation of the participant's pain.
One possibility that may account for this disjuncture in assessments is that the severity of the patients' conditions may have increased between the time of initial triage and subsequent assessment made at the time of treatment.
We included emergency departments and specialist mental health treatment settings in order to capture initial and subsequent risk assessments.
All questionnaires were completed and two assessors performed the initial and any subsequent assessments, but were blinded to baseline scores in order to ensure independent collection of outcome data.
Older people are quite likely to request a family member to be present at the initial, and possibly subsequent, assessments before they agree to participate in research.
Due to their self-knowledge, these musically trained individuals knew a priori whether they could perform hemiola polyrhythms; nevertheless, we undertook the initial subjective and subsequent objective assessment for verification.
Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) scores were obtained at the initial and subsequent visits between January 2003 and December 2008.
Two patients switched mode of assessment of LVEF from initial to subsequent assessments: one from MUGA to echo and one vice versa – neither of these patients had any suggestion of cardiac dysfunction therefore they have been included in the analysis.
