GD was involved in proposal development, logistic preparations for fieldwork, data collection supervision, and manuscript revision.
Although usually not necessary in routine practice, logistic preparations are vital in anticipation of mass disasters, because of increased patient load, limited resources and considerable chaos even in countries experienced in disaster management [ 48, 71, 82, 83].
Anaesthesia was performed by the same team as in anaesthesia #4 accompanied by equal logistic and infrastructural preparations.
The Center for Terror Analysis, Danish Security and Intelligence Service wrote a report in 2008 that states: The Internet plays a significant and increasing role for militant extremists and terrorist groups that use this media to spread messages, communicate and carry out virtual training as well as for recruitment, logistic support and operational preparations [1].
We would like to thank Baher Ibrahim, MD, MA, MS (King's College, London), Maheen Sayeed, MS (Georgetown University, USA), Abanoub Gad ( Children's hospital of Philadelpia, USA), Mostafa Samir (Alexandria Comprehensive Cancer Center, Egypt) for their administrative and logistic help during manuscript preparation.
The SRLF is deeply indebted to Mathieu Lloung for logistic support in the preparation and diffusion of the survey and the collection of data.
We used χ tests to evaluate associations between individual transition preparation survey items and overall transition preparation and multivariate logistic regression to examine patient-related factors associated with overall preparedness.
The quality of bowel preparation was dichotomized to poor and non-poor (i.e. good & intermediate combined) and independent risk factors associated with poor bowel preparation were identified using logistic regression analysis.
The four potential influences on examination preparation were entered into a multiple logistic regression model that also considered two-variable interaction terms.
KBL developed the idea, arranged the logistic for the study, contributed in data analysis and preparation of manuscript.
Through preparation and forethought, we attempted to anticipate the logistic and methodological problems, and sought to resolve them through a mix of ingenuity and some pragmatism but without scientific compromise.
