Research and theory suggest factors that contribute to the decision-making process: data on the likelihood of risks and benefits, level of certainty about outcomes, familiarity with the health issue, characteristics of information sources and presentation, and patient values and beliefs.
Throughout his long and distinguished career in philosophy he retained a down-to-earth realism and naturalism in metaphysics, and a conservative outlook on moral and political issues, characteristic of his origins.
In addition, we illustrate how providing results from different analysis methods can help to identify issues characteristic of the different methods.
Semisupervised clustering's main disadvantage is that it requires prespecification of the number of clusters; moreover, SPCA inherits the interpretability issues characteristic of PCA.
Another issue, possibly characteristic of other small markets, was the significant use (22%) of unlicensed medicines and thus unavailability of SPCs.
However, it is likely that many of the findings are transferable to other settings, particularly the broader themes relating to issue characteristics and issue complexity of MNDs.
As with any qualitative case study, it is not possible to generalise the findings to other settings and contexts, although some findings relating to issue characteristics and issue complexity of micronutrient deficiencies may be transferable to other settings.
Because this was a case study of a single policy issue, it is difficult to pinpoint the effect of issue characteristics.
In any case, it is important for researchers to be aware that measures of competence may often reflect perceptions of other issue characteristics, namely salience or position.
We examine how the design features underlying these ethical issues are characteristic of effectiveness trials, which are often large trials that compare treatments with varying degrees of existing effectiveness data and familiarity to patients and clinicians, in community-based treatment settings, with minimal exclusion criteria that could involve vulnerable populations.
