These differences were statistically significant for half of the vignettes, but it is uncertain whether this reflects appropriate care or if the differences were clinically significant.
However, because most studies examined diagnosis, treatment, physician and/or patient preferences, but not all factors, it is unclear whether suboptimal cancer treatment reflects appropriate consideration of increased risk of toxicity due to comorbid illness, patient preferences, lower quality of clinical care, or poor adherence.
Although it might be assumed that concordance with NICE guidance reflects appropriate management, we acknowledge the limitations of concordance in the assessment of CDSS.
It is unclear from the literature whether the apparent undertreatment reflects appropriate consideration of greater toxicity risk, poorer clinical quality, patient preferences, or poor adherence among patients with comorbidity.
30 42 It is difficult to interpret whether the low use of preventive treatments (particularly statins) in older people reflects appropriate or inappropriate care.
He said there had so far been "a total failure to reflect that his case reflects appropriate claims gone about in the wrong way".
Changeux (pp. 39 52) compares art and music: in both, beauty reflects appropriate harmony among their parts.
The low frequency of peripheral DXAs reflects appropriate standard of care since these scans are not used for diagnosis.
75 This raises the question of whether failure to intensify treatment 81 or to underuse evidence-based therapies 138 reflects appropriate clinical judgement or an inappropriate care gap.
This may reflect the fact that much of the prescribing of multiple cardiovascular medicines is driven by evidence-based guidelines, and as such reflects appropriate rather than problematic polypharmacy.
These actions reflected appropriate sensitivity by the new administration as it moves to renew ties with Japan at a difficult time.
