There was no significant difference in time to survey completion or response rate between a "personal" versus generic "business" style of envelope in the mail trial, or for a generic telephone message (that used the study name) versus a personalized telephone message (that used the principal investigator's name) for non-responders to the mail trial.
Even before that hearing, Linda T. Sanchez, Democrat of California, said, "Hey, why don't we let tobacco companies determine whether smoking is bad for your health or not?" The league spokesman Greg Aiello said in an e-mail message Friday that the study of retired players "is on hold for now as we explore having the study supported through an academic medical institution".
Lead author Dr Nawab Qizilbash from Oxon Epidemiology told the Guardian that the message from the study was not that it was OK to be overweight or obese in middle-age.
I don't think that's the message of the study, though.
Where available, we will also measure the difference in vaccine uptake, comparing practices that used the exact wording of the message in the study protocol with practices that used an alternative message.
We believe that the take-home message of the study is that a negative qualitative culture from tracheal aspirate, in the absence of prior antibiotics or a recent change in antibiotic therapy, is sufficient evidence to discount a diagnosis of VAP and therefore to stop antibiotic therapy.
Although different strategies would be needed to tackle these two possible causes of shortcomings in health care provision, the message that comes from the present study – that efforts are needed to overcome inequalities in diabetes patient management - is important, whatever the causal factors involved and their relative contributions.
We agree with the referees that the message of the study was indeed buried in the very end of the Discussion in the previous version and we failed to provide a consistent message throughout the paper.
The key message of the study is that we have presented a method for generation of a sufficient amount of autologous bone that might be used as autologous bone graft, without need for additional surgery.
Nevertheless, the most important message that emerged from this study regarding the treatment of diabetic patients with CLI was the enormous difference in the amputation rate between patients that received and those that did not receive revascularization; this difference was evident in both the early and the late follow-up periods.
