Spitzer's investigation of Wall Street practices has revealed what was long suspected.
But if a week of ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance practices has revealed anything, it's that the term is already grossly outdated.
Evaluation of feeding practices has revealed otherwise unnoticed, yet disappointing, results.
Studies documenting management practice have revealed widespread use of informal sponsorship feedback measures and, where more formal measures are used, these relate only indirectly to sponsorship objectives.
Such multinational multicenter longitudinal cohort assessments of sedation practice have revealed a high prevalence of deep sedation early after initiation of mechanical ventilation; early deep sedation was strongly and independently associated with delayed extubation and long-term mortality (but not delirium) [ 2, 3].
The use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in clinical practice has revealed that various types of abnormal vessel reactions associated with stent implantation (stent malapposition, thrombus, prolapse, and edge dissection) develop more frequently than expected.
A study in Danish general practice has revealed that, if GPs are allowed simply to categorise the first presentation of cancer, 50% are categorised as alarm symptoms, 20% are serious, but cancer nonspecific symptoms and 30% are categorised as normal vague symptoms (Jensen et al, 2014).
Surveys on the effectiveness of good practices in medicine have revealed that the single most important problem in their application is lack of dedicated time and resources as well as low motivation on the management side [ 36- 39].
Although China does not officially permit the sale of goods from these farms, in practice several investigations have revealed tiger parts are being sold.
Surveys of practice of physiotherapists have revealed low use of classification schemes despite evidence that treatment of patients based on subgrouping results in better outcomes than treatment based on clinical guidelines [ 27].
