For example, a study in the USA showed that the true prevalence of diabetes was 24% lower than the prevalence estimated based on fasting blood sugar measured on only one visit.
Therefore, when resources are limited the estimation of hypertension prevalence might be based on only one visit, while resources can be more efficiently used to target high-risk people who will benefit the most.
Importantly, compared with the original dG and FOLFOX4 regimens, the simple administration schedules of these 'MdG' regimens reduce patient and nurse time, and ensure that all patients may be treated on an outpatient basis with only one visit to the hospital every 2 weeks.
Participants with more than one follow-up visit were on average younger than participants with only one visit (57 vs. 62 years old) and were less likely to have ever had a myocardial infarction, although this difference was not statistically significant (Table 1).
The enrollment system is thus built on a tested, rational design where patients need only one visit and only specific limited data about physical activity, anthropometric measures, and family history of diabetes are collected during a brief patient interview.
The registration system was thus built on a tested, rational design where patients need only one visit, and only specific limited data are collected during a short patient interview, combined with data extracted from already existing databases.
He may not speak on the telephone, except for emergencies or with lawyers, and may have only one visit a week from relatives or friends -- providing limited opportunity for the kind of long and rambling speeches that he was prone to in his trial defense.
Diagnosis and treatment take only one visit.
The New York Times would never review a restaurant open only two weeks, and after only one visit.
The Ukip leader has made only one visit to the Nottinghamshire seat in the run-up to polling day.
The organization's human rights commission, which said last year that Iraq repressed and terrorized its citizens, appointed a special investigator in 1991 but Iraq has allowed only one visit, in 1992.
