Despite national efforts of categorisation, using patient-reported assessment tools, patient outcome following joint arthroplasty remains poorly understood and a highly complex construct to measure.
The analyst then combines data with police intelligence to generate constantly updated maps of violence "hotspots" and summaries of weapon use and violence type (classified as "stranger," "acquaintance," and "domestic" to fit with national crime survey categorisation).
Either this absence indicates that the distinction between nomade and sédentaire is so obvious that it needs no further explanation (like male and female) - which is clearly not the case given the wide spectrum of lifestyles, mobile housing and engagement with pastoralism - or it implies that this categorisation does not matter to national priorities.
Operational criteria for consistency were applied according to the slightly extended set published in the national guidelines. 1 In this service, the categorisation of PDOC status is assigned at discharge from the programme by consensus of the experienced MD clinical team, based on the findings from the full clinical evaluation, including any structured assessments that were undertaken.
The debate about categorisation is being canvassed in the upcoming national firearms review, which is due to be completed this year.
To be initially included, features had to meet the following sequential eligibility criteria: 1) features had to be considered appropriate in Delphi study 1 as well as the national Delphi study and 2) a consensus had to be reached regarding categorisation based on the results of Delphi study 2 (see Fig. 2).
In this study, our aim was to investigate the presenting characteristics and risk categorisation of prostate cancers diagnosed using the current version (2005) of the UK national guidelines.
Respondents' IMD scores (based on their postal code) were assigned to national IMD quintiles, derived from the ranking of IMD scores for the whole of England; this categorisation allowed comparison of the levels of deprivation in the sample, relative to the wider population.
There is a need for national knowledge of the capabilities of the individual hospitals, which can form a basis for characterisation, if not categorisation, of hospital EDs.
Taken together, the quiet re-categorisation of ordinary government spending as ODA and the reframing of aid as being in the national interest amount to a significant threat to a lot of what anti-poverty campaigners and development organisations have spent decades fighting for.
