In analysis, the relationship between therapist and patient serves as a kind of petri dish, in which the patient re-enacts her habitual ways of relating with others, enabling them to be better understood.
This patient serves to highlight that safety of PSA is dependent on patient characteristics and that adequate monitoring is essential during and after the procedure until the patient is ready for discharge.
The crossover trial allows for a within-patient comparison between treatments because each patient serves as his or her own control subject, removes the interpatient variability from the comparison between treatments, and can provide unbiased estimates for the differences between treatments.
Additionally, the generation of a consensus sequence for a patient serves as a valuable resource when observing how populations of HIV mutate over time.
In a case-crossover study each patient serves as both the case and the control.
Serial 'N if One' Study design, where each patient serves as their own control.
