Sentence examples for procedures were mostly from inspiring English sources

Informal consensus procedures were mostly used to formulate recommendations (10 countries) based on experience-based analysis of evidence (8 countries).

Criteria related to comorbidity, treatment, and pregnancy were mainly expressed as exclusion criteria, whereas criteria on type or severity of illness, personal characteristics, and diagnostic procedures were mostly inclusion criteria.

Both cohorts had a slightly higher proportion of males (50.2 % THA and 52.3 % TKA) than females and procedures were mostly performed in private hospitals (95.6 % THA and 96.6 % TKA).

Currently, these gait retraining procedures are mostly qualitative, often based on visual assessment and oral instructions.

The seven dangerous and costly procedures are mostly related to the organs of the digestive system: removing part of the colon, small-bowel resection, removing the gallbladder, operations related to peptic ulcer disease, removing abdominal adhesions, appendectomy and other operations to open the abdomen.

The procedures are mostly based on the system proposed by Yoneyama et al. [19].

US gel used in direct contact during interventional procedures was mostly from sterile sachets (516, 77.5 %).

However, such procedures are mostly confined to clinical research settings due to cost and time constraints.

In quantitative studies, generalizability is achieved via statistical sampling procedure, however such sampling procedures are mostly unavailable in qualitative research [ 34].

In the drug bioanalyses, the following types of extraction procedures are mostly employed [ 30]: liquid liquid extraction [ 31], solid-phase extraction [ 32– 34], solid-phase microextraction [ 35– 37], supercritical fluid extraction [ 38] and specific extraction using molecularly imprinted polymers [ 39].

No reliable statistics are available, because the procedure is mostly done in private clinics and in most cases not covered by tax-financed insurance plans.