"[T]here were no individuals on the IRB during this time period with expertise in adult hematology, oncology and transplant, cardiology, surgery, or neurology, although those fields taken together represented over 300 protocols.
During surveillance periods, similar expertise and counselling were imparted in each unit by the infection control staff.
There were the beginnings of industrial manufacture in this period, often utilising expertise from the continent, which included a failed attempt to use Flemings to teach new techniques in the developing cloth industry in the north-east, but more successful in bringing a Venetian to help develop a native glass blowing industry.
Although the EIP network has traditionally focused on acute infectious diseases with typically short incubation periods, their extensive expertise and proficiency for enhanced surveillance and demonstrated ability to develop local infrastructure to support complex surveillance activities made the EIP network an ideal candidate for collaboration on developing this new system.
Natalie Hanman, the editor of Comment is free, is launching a new series of long-form articles in which a writer is given space to explore a subject in depth over a longer period, drawing on the expertise of readers and using multimedia to explore particular themes.
The first wave concerns the period in which scientific expertise was seen as authoritative and not accessible to non-experts (and therefore esoteric), demanding a 'top-down approach' to its policies.
Understanding the unique conditions of medical ethics in East Germany and the other socialist states in that period will require incorporating expertise from cultural history, law, and the social sciences, as well as dogged archival work.
France agreed to rotate between 200 and 300 artworks during a 10-year period; to provide management expertise; and to provide four temporary exhibitions a year for 15 years.
"What they've achieved in a short period, combined with our local expertise, is a signal for growth".
This probably represents changes during the study period in availability of surgical expertise, criteria for selecting patients, or patients' preferences for surgery.
