He wrote that the time constraints involved "cannot be assured on a random-death basis", and that physicians he queried about the matter indicated that they were selecting live prisoners to ensure quality and compatibility.
Physicians were queried as to the patient's cardiovascular risk, LDL goal, and dietary and therapeutic recommendations.
Physicians were queried specifically about diabetic patients, and were asked to indicate any other patients or medical conditions for which they made modifications in corticosteroid types, or for which they chose not to administer these injections.
In a prospective study of 200 patients with major trauma [ 15], physicians were queried using a standardized set of questions as to their diagnostic and therapeutic management plan before and after a battery of POC tests (hemoglobin, electrolytes, glucose, blood gases and pH, base deficit, and lactate) became available.
If the patient was on furosemide, their physician was queried about the presence of heart failure.
The patient did not initially mention it to her treating physician, noting only bulk passage of tissue (as opposed to gradual sloughing) in response to a physician query after the fibroid had been noted to have essentially disappeared on the 3-month MRI study.
Personal physicians should be queried about these options, but if they do not have the knowledge or do not approve, then, as patients, second opinions are warranted.
Physicians were also queried about quality of life for both CFS patients and their caregivers or families.
Five took place in actual clinical settings [ 20- 24], whereas a sixth study queried physicians using hypothetical patient scenarios[ 19].
In a recent study, we found that patients report less pain in physicians' office when queried by the health care provider compared to that pain reported by them by a mailed survey completed at home [ 10].
