All included trials provided various types of standard care to the patients, and we excluded trials with different intended standard care for the no acupuncture group compared with the acupuncture and placebo acupuncture groups.
As for the ethical constitution, it's hard to understand why, strictly speaking, it is relevant: surely the term "co-operative" is meant to describe a model of ownership, rather than an intended standard of behaviour.
The White House intended the standard of "near certainty" that civilians wouldn't be killed to apply "only when we take direct action 'outside areas of active hostilities,' as we noted at the time," Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, told Yahoo.
Justice David Souter, writing for the court, rejected that argument, finding it doubtful that Congress intended fiduciary standards to cover decisions involving treatment made by doctors on behalf of a health plan.
In 1998, after four years of study, the Internet Engineering Task Force published a new 128-bit IP address standard intended to replace the conventional 32-bit standard.
Without straying into one of the many areas beyond my competence, I think it perhaps unwise to include anything "not intended as a standard requirement" in a standard legally binding contract.
Rapkin and colleagues have developed a number of measurement approaches intended to complement standard measures of quality of life by eliciting differences and changes in patients' concerns, standards of comparison, and priorities for quality of life [ 19- 22].
The digital format was intended as a standard to store videogame soundtracks on PCs, but was quickly adopted for compressing and sharing CDs.
This is a legal standard intended to protect board members from liability; a case against the Bear Stearns directors for selling on the cheap was also dismissed.
While it is intended for the standard to still be adapted and contextualised, the alliance will be working with organisations such as the Antares Foundation and Inter Health as well as using data and lessons from the sector, to develop it.
