In MF Global, although the court ultimately enforced policy language entitling individual insureds to payment priority, the litigation over coverage was protracted and the outcome turned (at least in part) on a fortuitous lack of claims triggering B and C coverage.
Full functional recovery from back surgery can be protracted, so the primary outcome of interest is the between-group difference in score on the ODI at one-year follow-up, based on intention-to-treat (modified to exclude patients recruited in error).
Labour's ignominious retreat this week does nothing to boost confidence that this will not be the dismal outcome of its protracted inquiries into council tax.
That sentiment reflects a widely shared belief that whatever the final outcome of the protracted antitrust battle, Microsoft will remain a ferocious competitor.
Thus, clinical studies may require protracted follow-up to assess outcomes of interest.
To achieve collective outcomes that address protracted internal displacement and prevent new displacement from becoming protracted, cooperation across the humanitarian, development, and political divide should be systematized and strengthened.
The important outcomes of this protracted racial exclusion and segregation on the HRH side of the health system were that the majority of health professions developed along stark racial lines marked by white privileging and dominance, further distorted by male dominance.
Moreover, the authors believed there was broader potential for a model covering multiple temporal scales, from cellular mechanisms to protracted clinical outcomes, and rooted in understood physiology.
A criminal investigation would be protracted, the parents had decided, its outcome uncertain.
FAO and WFP co-hosted an event to present the findings of the report Breaking the impasse: Reducing protracted internal displacement as a collective outcome.
Even if Russia is "Parthia" rather than "Carthage," its standoff with the new Rome will be protracted, difficult -- and with uncertain outcomes.
