Medical and surgical therapies, including concurrent therapies, evolve continuously and may affect the routine care given to participants during a trial.
Questions have arisen as to how the tremendous polio eradication effort in India may have affected routine immunization programs for polio and non-polio antigens.
A study in the United States involving nurses and nursing assistants assessed the perceived beliefs and views related to patients' nutritional needs and found that specific barriers such as lack of time and training, working short-staffed, poor food quality, and a lack of nurse to nursing-assistant teamwork may affect the nutritional routines provided by health care staff [ 13].
Viewers might not think that the shows and films that enrich our lives and let us happily escape after a day or week of the usual routine may affect our view of our neighbors, fellow citizens, or people around the world.
These musculoskeletal disorders often cause pain and functional limitations, as we have shown with the validated, self-administered DASH Disability and Symptom score, and may affect the ability to perform routine daily activities (4– 6); however, patients and health care providers may not be aware of these potentially treatable complications (3).
A large group of UK cancer experts charge overdiagnosis may affect half of UK women getting routine mammograms, and their outrage caused the National Health Service to recall risk-devoid mammogram campaign materials this July.
We think it is important to listen to feedback and that this may affect the acceptance of technology in routine care.
We aimed to determine to what extent non-inclusion criteria of RCTs dealing with severe sepsis and septic shock may affect application of their conclusions in routine care.
Although the data presented may not be directly generalisable to other situations and cultural settings, this study highlights the need to evaluate factors associated with non-compliance with routine testing, as they may affect the efficacy of Biosafety programs.
Survivors of critical illness often have significant long-term brain dysfunction, and routine clinical procedures like mechanical ventilation (MV) may affect long-term brain outcome.
