At the starting point of the new system, efficiency differentials between hospitals might have differed significantly for different DBC codes and activities.
However, a limitation of our study is that we used essentially these criteria to screen, and the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria might have differed if we used different criteria.
Thus, even if the organizations might have differed in peculiar aspects, these differences were too small to deviate from the same strategic path (Becker 2004; Burgelman 2010).
In addition, subjects were drawn from three different neurology clinics which might have differed in their clinical approach, although using the same IHS criteria.
Our results might have differed if we had used a different diagnostic standard, but culture, for example, is insensitive, labor intensive, unlikely to be available soon at Karapitya Teaching Hospital and many similar hospitals, and too slow to guide clinical management.
Respondents might have differed in the way they attributed contacts to different categories, e.g. in what they considered leisure or other place.
The prevalence of cancer in ancient populations might have differed from that in modern humans, because of substantial differences in tobacco and alcohol use, diet, life expectancy, and the availability of treatment.
Julie Bindel said that writing in a different place and at greater length the tone might have differed and the piece itself have been more analytical.
Dr. Messinis acknowledged that the results might have differed with marijuana users from the general population.
However, it is unclear how the overall geometry of these casts might have differed from the natural in situ appearance.
Moreover, the Boston results might have differed if the scientists had interviewed aging fathers.
