Searches were not restricted by intervention due to the complexity of defining the intervention and to prevent omission of relevant references.
Following piloting with 10 subjects, the method of administration of the questionnaires was changed from self-administration to administration by research assistants to prevent omission of data.
In the full study, this may mean data imputation using regression techniques, but in the pilot study, there will be insufficient data to carry out the regressions robustly and last observation carried forward may be used to prevent omission of patients.
The list of questions was only there to prevent omissions in the topics to be addressed.
To ensure an exhaustive search and prevent omissions, Barroso and colleagues [ 32] have recommended that researchers continually evolve their search strategy.
Regular in-service training of health care providers and the utilization of written guidelines for the management of sexually assaulted victims will prevent omissions and ensure prompt and comprehensive post-rape care.
Handheld computers can be programmed to provide determinate responses, date stamped to document times of data entry, restrict times of data entry, prevent retroactive data entry, limit 'look back' to previous data, prevent omissions of data entry, and can save considerable time and labor incurred in data handling.
One, a linking device, allows safer labeling of tubes away from the bedside, the second, a forcing function, prevents omission of critical patient identification steps.
For this reason, we discriminated between 'emergency' prescribing, and errors where a more complete or accurate medication history would have prevented omission of prescribed medications.
In his plan Bacon had achieved more than a thoroughly scientific and acceptable arrangement of the contents of an encyclopaedia; he had ensured that the encyclopaedists would have a comprehensive outline of the scope of human knowledge that would operate as a checklist to prevent the omission of whole fields of human thought and endeavour.
To this end, several second opinion software solutions have been developed to facilitate communication and prevent the omission of important, sensitive data, while guaranteeing adequate personal data protection [6].
