A Dutch practice survey observed that 60% of departments never change the tracheotomy tube [92].
By September 2012, the orthopedic practice survey was closed with a total of 770 responses received.
Details about the administration of the AAOS practice survey have been reported elsewhere [41].
In the intital practice survey phase, 5,017 studies were used to construct the protocol Top-21.
In 2003 a Scandinavian practice survey was performed documenting an extensive use of colloids and dopamine (1).
A hand therapy practice survey focuses on treatment and practice issues, continuing education, and challenges facing hand therapist colleagues abroad.
In intensive care, in a practice survey in the USA, 80% of tracheotomy tubes were changed routinely, but with substantial variability [91].
We conducted a practice survey in French general ICUs and in neurointensive care units concerning tracheostomized ICU patients and their management after ICU.
Similar trends and variations in treatment approach were observed when uveitis specialists were surveyed in 2011 by Wakefield and associates [8] fully 20 years after the original ocular toxoplasmosis practice survey was published.
In order to identify the differences in technique and to identify targets for training we undertook a practice survey of episiotomies to analyse the differences in technique between grades of obstetricians and midwives.
Despite our efforts to use all available CMS data to confirm the practice affiliation of providers obtained from the AAOS practice survey data, the possibility of errors in the assignment of specific providers to specific practices at the time of first onsite MRI acquisition remains.
