Using patient record data enabled us to reflect differences between official clinical guidelines and treatment practices because of availability of resources or a physician's need to make clinical decisions while awaiting diagnostic results.
Findings from this study indicated that factors contributing to initial decision on location of practice include availability of leisure/recreation activities, proximity of family origin and influences of spouse/partners.
The frequency and thoroughness of assessment were influenced by the GPs' personal interests and perceived congruence with their role, the level of risk to the patient, the capacity of the practice and availability of time.
The practice of hand washing and the factors that influence hand washing behaviour among individuals in communities are complex (Whitby 2007); for example, washing hands with water only or with soap may be influenced by both knowledge of best practice and availability of water and soap (Curtis 2011).
The metrics are categorized based on their foundational character (foundations), their use in practice (state-of-practice), their availability for practice (state-of-art) and those suggested for future exploration (state-of-future).
Chicago was ranked second highest nationally on the Brown Center on Education Policy's Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), which scores large school districts based on 13 categories of policy and practice, including availability of alternative education options and implementation of effective competition systems.
Mr. Khatami seemed unaccustomed to the Western practice of a "press availability" after an official meeting, at which officials make a few comments, photographers shoot pictures and reporters fire off a few questions.
Providing a robust, objective definition of BCC cases of sufficient complexity to be classified as advanced is challenging, not only because of the heterogeneity of the disease, but because of variation in clinical practice and availability of treatment options.
Such guidelines need to be suitably pragmatic to account for the diversity of standard imaging practice and availability of hardware within many imaging centres across many countries.
6 Cross-sectional surveys in children, 6 adolescents 7 and adults 8 11 consistently demonstrate an association between current paracetamol use and asthma in populations with widely differing lifestyles, standards of living, medical practice and availability of paracetamol.
