Pinched students and parents are likely to be more curious about whether prospective institutions are at risk of going bust.
This prospective single institution study was approved by the local institutional review board and was compliant with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; informed consent was obtained from each patient.
In the United Kingdom, applicants approach a prospective host institution seeking an endorsement of their projects.
Applications must be made jointly with the prospective host institution (in academia and beyond).
This prospective single institution study involved spinal fusion patients who had undergone autologous ICBG harvest as a component of their surgery between 2003 and 2005.
The large prospective single institution Oslo Tomosynthesis Screening Trial (OTST), part of a population-based mammography screening programme, has four study arms interpreted independently by four radiologists: conventional FFDM (2D), FFDM plus computer-aided detection (2D + CAD), conventional FFDM plus tomosynthesis (2D + 3D), and synthesised 2D plus tomosynthesis (synthesised 2D +3D).
We recruited eight trauma patients with intracranial hemorrhage (six male/two female, mean age 40 years, APACHE III score 41 ± 7, Glasgow coma scale 8 ± 2) who were intubated, mechanically ventilated, sedated, and older than 18 years in this prospective, controlled, Institution Review Board-approved trial.
Their rarity makes late toxicity analysis not comparable within small, prospective, single-institution trials.
Design Secondary analysis of a prospective, multi-institution, longitudinal study of patients with advanced cancer.
