Mr. Abbott's office said the agreement that was read into the court record "reiterated pre-existing policies and procedures".
As a student of organizations and management, I am always impressed by the importance of established organizational capacity and pre-existing standard operating procedures and organizational routines.
In order to reduce mucus production or to remove pre-existing mucus, several procedures may be used.
An LHD's ability to recruit additional staff from within its agency depended largely on the support of the agency's leadership, pre-existing plans and procedures, and resources available to the particular LHD.
Our meta-analysis demonstrates that sodium bicarbonate is superior to saline for the prevention of CIN in patients with pre-existing renal insufficiency undergoing procedures using contrast media.
We conducted multivariate logistic regression to create models adjusted for age at delivery, multiple pregnancy, type of bariatric surgical procedure, pre-existing diabetes, and insurance plan (fig 2).
We used logistic regression to calculate the odds ratio and confidence intervals for each of the outcomes in unadjusted models and then in models adjusted for maternal age at delivery, multiple pregnancy, type of bariatric surgical procedure, pre-existing diabetes complicating pregnancy, and insurance plan.
Characteristics of the tegaserod initiators and their matched comparators did not differ substantially for any of the characteristics that were part of the propensity score (demographics, pre-existing diagnoses or medical conditions, procedures, prior drug use, and baseline healthcare utilization).
For IV cannulation, the student was expected to arrange required material and perform the procedure following a pre-existing checklist [ 44].
POH was independently associated with pre-existing host complications, acute trauma, body size, cranial procedures, and length of the surgical procedure.
