The relatively recent influx of data showing high incidence, severity and correlation, and perhaps causal relationship of hyperglycemia with adverse effects in critical illness may begin to challenge practitioners' concepts of whether hypo or hyperglycemia is more detrimental.
In Israel, only physicians prescribe drugs (the nurse practitioner concept, ie, nurses with autonomy to prescribe drugs, is still in its early stages).
Thai traditional medicine (TTM) is widely practiced in Thailand and continues to gain importance in cancer management, but little is known about the TTM practitioners' emic concepts and practice.
This suggests further that literature is linked with not only broad practitioner research concepts, but also more superficial reasoning concepts such as discussed, what is known previously, what is similar or rare, what can be described or compared or observed.
What other concepts do practitioners associate with an evidence concept in their case summaries, particularly concepts to do with research literature and intuition?' The study design involved treating abstracts of case reports as indicative evidence of what authors of those reports selected as important to understanding them.
Amongst practitioners, the standard concept often cause confusion in discussions and there is often a lack of clarity concerning exactly what is referred to when the term "standard" is used in the ICT-area (see e.g. [29]).
Researchers and practitioners embrace the concept that "place matters" in producing disparate health outcomes [ 1- 7].
Although ICU practitioners support the concept of utilizing such devices, many have dismissed the potential use of such technology in critical care settings.
AADs are considered NTIDs from a clinical point of view for both cardiologists and general practitioners, although the concept of NTI is strongly influenced by the nature of the indication and the presence/absence of underlying heart disease.
For general practitioners (GPs), this concept is of particular interest because it firstly focuses efforts and resources on high-risk patients, secondly makes GPs and patients more flexible in the choice of risk-lowering interventions, and thirdly reassures patients with low CVR that they may not benefit from treatment despite possible elevated risk factor levels.
