Several ways of measuring advice utilization are subsequently contrasted, and the conventional operationalization of "advice" itself is questioned.
He added: "We'll be spending around £35m this winter helping low-income and vulnerable customers through financial support, free energy efficiency measures and advice, and our Health through Warmth scheme".
Farmers felt they had adopted measures on advice from technical specialists, but these measured turned out to be disadvantageous, for example, "Agriculture has always been pretty quick to take on board new things that were deemed to be good, but we've had quite a lot of stuff come at us that's deemed to bad, well it's turned out to be bad" (interview 26, hill beef and sheep farmer).
Antireflux therapy included proton pump inhibitor (omeprazole 20 mg bid) and antireflux measures including advice about diet and sleeping posture.
These measures included advice against drinking water from rainwater tanks (contaminated by dust), wet mopping of dust, cleaning with other methods, and hand washing.
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Absent that drastic measure, his advice remains "Dont ask the barber whether you need a haircut. (See "The Wit And Wisdom of Warren Buffett").
If these messages were any indication, I probably dodged a few bullets by not ending up with clients who probably wouldn't want to take any measure of advice from the "fabulous homo" that is moi.
Measuring lifestyle advice, we used self-reported data, as preventive and counselling activities have been found to be under recorded in EMRs [ 38].
Our second outcome measure was the sum score on eight measures of lifestyle advice to CHF patients [ 5- 7] (see Table 1; measurements at individual patient level).
