Endoscopy-related variables were procedure (colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy), purpose of the procedure (diagnostic or therapeutic), endoscopic setting (emergency or elective), and whether the examination was conducted with or without sedation.
Some family members recalled that during the outbreak, medical procedures such as lumbar puncture were conducted without their consent or without explaining the purpose of the procedure to the family and that this damaged their trust of the medical system.
"The obvious purpose of the procedure is palliation and symptom relief.
The purpose of the procedure is not to clone human beings but to establish cell cultures that can serve as models of human disease.
She gave her approval, under the theory that termination of the pregnancy would be the result but not the purpose of the procedure.
If he were not to probe aggressively, though, he might miss a bit of tumor and defeat the purpose of the procedure entirely.
When Dr Mitalipov tested his zygotes, he could find no trace of mutated mitochondrial DNA in them, so the purpose of the procedure seems to have been achieved.
The purpose of the procedure is the unambiguous identification and detection in biological fluids.
The purpose of this procedure is to differentiate the behavior of the particle according to the local intensity.
The purpose of this procedure is to generate authentication data from the cover image I and then conceal them underneath.
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