Since little is known about how clinicians make decisions to decannulate tracheostomized patients, we conducted a survey to determine the factors clinicians consider to be important in recommending decannulation and to ascertain their opinions regarding the definition of decannnulation failure.
It would be important, in a second step, to ascertain whether awareness means a real concern about the destiny of the biological material, or represents an indirect concern for privacy or confidentiality issues [ 25, 33], a need to "keep in contact" with the research groups and their activities.
This study does not ascertain what factors are important in these two age groups and may be quite different.
This is important to ascertain because in a country such as the UK, with a universal health-care system, any breastfeeding related HPFI would be funded by the public purse through taxation.
Because lowland rice production is increasing in tropical Africa, it is important to ascertain the influence of R. fistulosa on weed plant communities in these rice-growing habitats.
In this context, it is important to ascertain whether communities are equipped to address these deeply ingrained feelings in people.
When estimating regression models with quadratic terms, it is important to ascertain the turning point in the relationship that is, at what point does growth in GDP per capita increase EIWB, given that the quadratic term is statistically significant.
In addition, it is important to ascertain whether such women will attend for further investigation, if they have a positive screening test (HPV test or cervical cytology).
In addition, it is important to ascertain the prevalence of the beliefs held by MC nonintenders and intenders to assess whether there are sufficient proportions of people who may be moved from low to high belief strength by communications targeting the beliefs [ 41].
