It seems that Van Stralen et al. (2003) and Weeden et al. (2003) retrospectively identified dislocations using institutional patient charts, therefore not including dislocations that were reduced at other institutions resulting in potential under-reporting.
Clearly in assessing the effects of the new institutional developments charted here—of which the most important is decentralization, this interplay needs to be modeled.
We obtained age, diagnoses, and medical history by reviewing the patients' hospital charts and institutional electronic databases.
In addition to the data provided by parents, diagnosis and treatment information were abstracted from hospital charts by institutional clinical research associates.
The parameters of age, sex, pre-admission mRS, length of hospital stay (LOS; in days), diagnosis, duration time of ventilation (LOV; in days) and modified TISS-28 (Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System) [ 4] were obtained by reviewing the patients' hospital charts and institutional electronic databases.
chart measuring institutional strength, while India, Indonesia and the Philippines are at the bottom.
After he talked to ScienceInsider yesterday, he had an appointment with an institutional press officer to chart a communication strategy.
Data for this study were obtained through a retrospective chart review with institutional review board approval.
Because our institution has no internal institutional review board, we gained approval for this retrospective chart review from Western IRB (Puyallup, WA) protocol number 2016000.
JBK and SG obtained clinical data by reviewing institutional databases and the patients' medical charts.
