The Ekjut trial is an example of a successful participatory intervention that has shown a tangible impact on seemingly intractable health outcomes.
For patients who undergo brain surgery to treat medically intractable epilepsy, the outcome crucially depends on the accurate definition of the brain volume that has to be resected.
Poor health outcomes and intractable urban poverty are as closely related today as they were historically; raising minimum wages, improving education and creating higher levels of socio-economic mobility can go far to change that.
Transdisciplinary research, involving close collaboration between researchers and the users of research, has been a feature of environmental problem solving for several decades, often spurred by the need to find negotiated outcomes to intractable problems.
Having failed in his effort during his first term to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the president may not want to invest significant political capital to seek a solution to an intractable conflict with an uncertain outcome.
This study was to determine the long-term outcomes of arterial pelvic embolization for intractable postpartum hemorrhage and particularly its effect on menses, fertility, and outcomes of subsequent pregnancies.
Toward the end of the century, the possibility of a violent outcome in the increasingly intractable problem of Ireland brought existing constitutional methods into question.
Growing evidence has suggested that negative symptoms in psychotic disorders are intractable and associated with poor functional outcome [ 1- 3].
Therapeutical effects of TCMs around the world for curing a certain intractable disease are usually from whole outcomes of multiple constituents in the clinic, no matter what single TCM or compound prescription is applied by the patients.
Disentangling causal paths between obesity and in vitro fertilization outcomes may be an intractable problem, but other research questions of clinical importance can be addressed through appropriate study designs and analytic methods.
Many physicians view the adverse outcomes of delirium as intractable.
