Physician discretion and racial variation in the use of surgical procedures.
Similarly, rejecting a patient for his political views, inability to pay, refusal to abide by medical advice, decision to smoke (or play contact sports?), or other characteristics not protected by law would fall completely within the realm of physician discretion.
This article is a review of several methodological challenges in the design of medical effectiveness trials, including whether to blind the study, definition of the patient population, degree of physician discretion in treatment, and how to collect and analyze data for patients who discontinue their originally assigned medication.
We did not detect significant differences in clinical outcomes or in the A-ALC collection between the modified and the standard Fenwal Amicus settings; however, despite physician discretion on primary number of collections and range of cells infused, higher A-ALC infused dose were associated with better survival after APHSCT.
We compare emergency department (ED) operational metrics obtained in the first year of a rotational patient assignment system (in which patients are assigned to physicians automatically according to an algorithm) with those obtained in the last year of a traditional physician self-assignment system (in which physicians assigned themselves to patients at physician discretion).
The patient discharge was considered at physician discretion based on the results of the ultrasound scanning.
All patients started with three sessions per week, and the schedule was then tailored at physician discretion on the basis of patient progress.
Dobutamine was introduced at the physician discretion according to a combination of parameters echocardiographic parameters, cardiac index, lactate clearance, SVO2 and Swan-Ganz derived parameters.
Four patients were re-treated with RTX after 6 months, two patients because of symptom recurrence and increasing IgG4 concentration, and the other two because of physician discretion.
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although priority for liver transplantation is determined by the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score, the quality of organs used is subject to physician discretion.
