Sentence examples for opportunistic practices from inspiring English sources

The average time spent screening in opportunistic practices was approximately three minutes.

Although the opportunistic practices appear to be more successful in engaging patients in a follow-up consultation, data were missing from one practice which used the disease register methodology.

Practices recruiting from a disease register achieved higher response rates compared with opportunistic practices, however, the overall recruitment rate of 16% is low in comparison to previous studies which have utilised letters of invitation to recruit patients to physical activity counselling or ER schemes[ 8, 23].

The sharp change observed in the incidence of this tumour could be connected, as in the case of breast cancer, with the early implementation of such active case searching (opportunistic practices) and a higher degree of awareness among the population and professionals alike.

"It's a bit of an opportunistic practice," said Burt Alper, principal at Catchword Branding, a consulting company in Oakland, Calif.

10 However, PSA-screening was introduced nationwide as opportunistic practice-based or population-based screening, partly because political powers promoted PSA-screening as a cancer-control action for men, which can be harmonized with breast or cervical cancer screening for women (information from several political newsletters).

The cosy, often inefficient, relations between its banks and their corporate clients are being supplanted by cheaper, but more opportunistic, debt practices of the sort that fuelled the takeover boom in America in the 1980s.

By following cyclic and migratory strategies and other opportunistic husbandry practices, the nomads were able to prevent the extinction of their livestock herds and flocks and maintain the bio-diversity of the local breeds (Sidahmed 1996).

Supervision has the combined objectives of preventing mistakes, poor practice and adverse events, while facilitating opportunistic and "practice-based" learning together with a degree of junior doctor autonomy [ 1].

Casual opportunistic sex practiced by beautiful people of both sexes is an easy-come, easy-go transaction.

Context: Patent trolling is an opportunistic legal practice that exploits intellectual property without the intent of innovating.