Framing and re-framing investigative objectives and goals early and often remain the keys to any successful investigation.
Given the nature of the data set, this leads to an extremely high incidence of hits that are not relevant to investigative objectives.
In the Diamond study, GERD was defined based on objective investigative findings (reflux esophagitis on endoscopy, pathological esophageal acid exposure and/or a positive symptom acid association probability), and patients with functional causes for their symptoms were thus likely to have been excluded.
"A big volume of work was conducted by the investigators, which established an objective picture of the events that happened," investigative committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said late Wednesday on the agency's website.
Any objective review of the hospital records, investigative reports and toxicological analyses of the patients who suddenly, inexplicably and conveniently died during a four-hour period while waiting to be evacuated on Sept. 1 conclusively proves that these individuals were euthanized.
But in a study this week, the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said health officials had used objective criteria in deciding whether to grant waivers.
Questions and probes were selected and adjusted to accommodate the research objectives of the current study by the investigative team, which included members with extensive experience interviewing adolescents and their parents.
Objective: This study was undertaken to determine which investigative tools are of most clinical benefit in a routine postoperative fever workup and to describe which postoperative patients require closer investigation at the time of fever.
To reach these objectives, we used the scoping review as an investigative method.
Quantitative and objective methods for cough assessment are not available beyond the investigative laboratory and are unique to the specific investigator (discussed for example in [ 9]).
