While, in principle, intention to test for LTBI is intention to treat with preventive chemotherapy, in contacts of patients with MDR/XDR-TB, intention to test is intention for close monitoring, as there is currently insufficient evidence to recommend preventive chemotherapy for MDR/XDR-TB contacts with LTBI in general.
In principle, the intention to test the hypothesis in a formal Popperian setting is indeed commendable.
Salmon's explicit intention in employing the MT principle is to show how pseudo processes are different from causal processes.
"As a rule Plaid Cymru MPs do not vote on England-only matters, therefore in principle we support intentions to provide a fourth and final reading to each bill which applies to England only matters in which only English MPs will be allowed to vote," he said.
"The bill's intentions are noble and few would disagree with them in principle," he said.
In the intention-to-treat analysis, any bias resulting from this should in principle be removed.
Analogous to the unbiased approach used in randomized trials, we adopted the intention to treat principle in which we compared strategies of treatment, allowing patients to change therapy based upon their clinical need during follow-up in the study.
We analysed data according to the intention to treat principle, in which the study groups are compared in terms of the treatment to which they were randomly allocated.
analyses were conducted according to the intention to treat principle, in that all eligible patients prospectively enrolled in the individual studies were considered.
Our proposed analysis strategy conforms to the intention to treat principle in the presence of missing outcomes and clarifies uncertainty regarding its application.
