Pathogen negative NGU is more likely with increasing age, the absence of discharge or clinical symptoms, and engagement in low-risk practices [ 9– 11].
34 Therefore, it is possible that a minority of patients may have been classified as low risk when, in practice, most would be treated as high risk.
In low risk situations those practices may demand less sophisticated evaluations and techniques: when the costs associated with mitigation actions, e.g., evacuation of the population at risk, are low, sophisticated analyses are not required since actions can be carried out at low cost following little warning.
NRDC's "Soil Matters" report describes how we can build farms that are more resilient to climate change by encouraging low risk, water-smart practices that regenerate soil.
Objective: To evaluate the performance of abdominal palpation as a screening test for intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) in a low risk population, under standard practice conditions.
However, despite recommendation of this prediction tool by professional organizations, in daily practice low risk patients are often treated as inpatients [ 8].
While this control strategy did eventually bring the epidemic to a halt, it has been suggested that it could have been better targeted to reduce the epidemic duration and impact since it appeared that, as implemented in practice, low risk premises were targeted over higher risk premises [ 6].
This present study detected not only low MSSA and MRSA prevalence, in both abattoirs but also low risk perception and hygiene practices employed by abattoir workers.
The 'High', 'Medium' and 'Low' risk categories may help guide practice decisions and they correspond with categories used by the ESC guidelines.
Our trial was altogether conducted according to good clinical research practice, with low risk of bias (adequate allocation sequence generation, adequate allocation concealment, adequate blinding, no risk of selective outcome reporting, low risk of incomplete outcome data bias, no risk of 'for profit' bias) and a high degree of external validity.
