Or did new methods in radiotherapy or chemotherapy offer new means of intervention, for purposes of palliation or even cure?
Because we are studying a low-intensity informational intervention, for purposes of sample size calculation we will aim for sufficient power to detect a difference in weight change that is 2/3 of the 1.7% difference estimated above.
However, the issue arose as to whether the training and follow-up provided by the department was sufficient to call this a model intervention for purposes of the trial.
The need (on the one hand) to co-create and adapt interventions for the purposes of maximising fit and (on the other hand) to pre-specify them for the purposes of ethical approval creates a tension for which there is no simple or formulaic solution.
To avoid this problem, liberal eugenics advocates propose various limits on genetic interventions for enhancement purposes.
[ 52] According to DLHR the health professional should not perform medical duties or engage in medical interventions for "security purposes".
To apply a new method of appraising the cost efficiency of preventive interventions for the purposes of making such interventions comparable and to facilitate return-on-investment estimates.
Ethical approval was not required, since patients only received the customary care and there were no experimental interventions for the purposes of the present study.
The index provides a rigorous approach to consider the value of different interventions for the purposes of economic evaluation within the aged care sector.
Since the human circadian system is maximally sensitive to short-wavelength (blue) light, lower, more targeted lighting interventions for therapeutic purposes, can be used.
