Benefits are thought to include use of the arm in the casting procedure to encourage the return of muscular control, and the emotional support of being with other women in a beautiful outdoor setting for a weekend retreat to help the spirit soar.
Vascular surgeons are optimally poised to be able to capitalize on the "teachable moment" of the vascular procedure to encourage smoking cessation.
Should we change our payment system to better reward physicians for their time, and not just for the number of procedures they perform, as a way of encouraging more medical school students to choose primary care?
Private accreditation programs have the added advantage of encouraging RECs to develop policies and procedures for issues that are insufficiently addressed at the regulatory level.
Most of the sites, which make their money selling ads, have procedures to encourage that.
Whilst the overall acceptability of the procedure was encouraging, the division of the procedure into nine distinct time-periods enabled us to identify the key moments of difficulty for closer scrutiny (figure 3).
The results of this procedure are encouraging with lead implantation possible in 96% of patients in a recent report.
However, technological improvements, including simplification and decreased invasiveness of the procedure, have encouraged some to consider a more liberal use of tracheotomy.
At final follow-up, 51 months after the first procedure, patient was very satisfied and the positive result of this procedure had encouraged her to have bariatric surgery.
For respondents in both groups, the promise of a cure touted by the 'liberation' procedure information was encouraging.
This was achieved variously through the provision of tracking and monitoring by nurses, the provision (and implementation) of procedures designed to encourage adherence to medication or treatment, the use of practice managers to keep patients in care.
