Sentence examples for practitioner effect from inspiring English sources

While we acknowledge the potential for clustering effects by peer educator/practitioner, we did not include this in our power estimation as the small number of practitioners/peer educators per cultural group (from as low as 1 per cultural group) means that the practitioner effect cannot be estimated independently of the intervention effect.

Secondly, even if we could assign referrals to an individual general practitioner, it would not be possible to identify reliably an "individual general practitioner effect" for chronic conditions, where immediate referral is not indicated (in this case for hip pain and dyspepsia).

As it was not possible to consider the "centre" (practitioner) effect in the logistic regressions in these models (the variable "centre" is nested in the dependent variable "psychiatrist v. GP"), other analyses were previously conducted in order to detect any « cluster effect » since each practitioner included several patients.

It highlights the importance of patient practitioner interactions, and the need to address practitioner effects in designing and analysing outcome studies in low back pain and neck pain in primary care.

We attempted to minimise this practitioner clustering effect by having standardised information resources as well as peer educator training across the three different cultural groups.

To the chagrin of both investigator and practitioner, the effects of cytokines are pleiotropic and include both synergistic and antagonistic effects on other cytokines - thereby introducing tremendous complexity that has often led to diametrically opposing conclusions in different studies.

For dental society, this result will give information to the dental practitioner regarding the effect of home and in-office bleaching to the new available tooth colored filling materials.

Furthermore, to the extent that consultations are seen as service commodities (with patients seen as active seekers and consumers of those services) then it is also intuitively plausible that satisfaction might depend on the fulfilment of prior expectations for medications, tests, referrals, and other onward services for which the general practitioner is in effect a 'gatekeeper'gatekeeper

Microsoft was a master practitioner of "network effects," the straightforward precept in economics that the value of a product or service often goes up as more people use it.

A definitive cluster-randomised trial should be undertaken that incorporates practitioner concerns and effect-size preferences.

Allied health professionals also commented about being sole practitioners and its effect on their participation in the AHRRTS program.