So there's always the chance that BT will face further action in the future — albeit regulatory intervention timescales to date in this space suggest BT will have a fair amount of breathing space before having to worry about further intervention.
As a contingency, to ensure outcome measures are assessed at an appropriate time point after intervention, if treatment is delayed and commences more than 12 weeks post-randomisation, the assessment schedule will be shifted to a post-intervention timescale.
Goal setting is a complex process, which requires skill and experience on the part of investigators both to coin the SMART goal description and also to be able to predict the likely outcome of the intervention and its timescale.
There are difficulties in drawing together the evidence that exists to analyse an overall risk, since the studies use very different variables such as patient group, timescale, interventions and investigations.
This means that this body of theory could be brought to bear to help understand how social variation in reproductive behaviour is maintained, how it respond to changes in the environmental context, and how and over what timescale interventions should be evaluated.
The action is a success locally (within the short timescale of intervention) but its sustainability at local level, and even more so at national level, is a failure (in terms of the much longer timescale of the health system).
However, these are only of merit if they persist longer than the timescale of interventions.
Information from the 22 selected publications are provided in Tables 1 and 2, including author, region, perspective, study population, modeling, timescale, discount, interventions, and outcome and sensitivity analyses.
Suleyman said the timescale for an intervention is a matter of hours, but if the injury is caught early, "then with really simple and really cheap things like intravenous fluid and antibiotics, you have the potential to save that person's life".
Similarly, the timescale between presentation and intervention may be short, such that an individual is unable to consider the interventions proposed reasonably.
