Faced with so many competing demands, some organisations tended to revert to a highly bureaucratised form of management, characterised by proliferation of rules, procedures and forms corresponding to externally imposed demands.
As for the proliferation of smaller cosmetic procedures?
The viability of international collaboration in genetics depends in part on improving access to researchers; this can be hindered by the proliferation of heterogeneous access procedures and ethical guidelines.
On the medical costs front, I think malpractice reform can reduce the proliferation of needless, defensive medical procedures, saving billions without putting patients at risk.
Currently, there are no national policies guiding the proliferation of providers of this procedure as well as whether pregnant women should have routine prenatal scan or not.
University of Minnesota bioethicist Leigh Turner says this week's court ruling "is particularly important given that we are witnessing within the US the proliferation of clinics marketing stem cell procedures," many of which "appear to be pushing stem cell quackery," he says.
Fig. 3 Schematic views of the cell proliferation test procedure: a dispensing of cell droplets into the well, b addition of the CCK-8 solution into the well and measurement of light absorbance after incubation, and c replacement with fresh cell media.
It concludes: "Despite narrative verdicts warning of dangerous procedures and the proliferation of guidelines, lessons are not being learnt: people die in similar ways year on year".
We hear about the proliferation of unnecessary end-of-life tests, procedures and protocols that serve not to prolong life but to "standardize care" and protect hospitals and providers from the risks of liability.
This procedure induces the proliferation of cells that stratify on the surface.
And for decades critics have derided the requirement as producing little more than confusion, delay, expense, distorted science and, as a government report once put it, "a proliferation of opportunities to misinterpret or misapply required procedures".
