Importantly, direct standardization methods [ 17- 20] rather than indirect standardization methods [ 5, 7, 10, 20] were used for the comparative evaluation of outcomes.
These are intended more as treatment recommendations, rather than treatment standardizations as in the CARRA initiative.
Presenting the Swiss award, noted Swiss architect Mario Botta praised the elevation of craft skills within Studio Mumbai at a time when the forces of globalization are so often interpreted as "a form of standardization rather than an opportunity for interaction and enrichment".
More focused multivariate region of interest analysis, larger control banks (perhaps based on disease mimics rather than healthy individuals), with standardization and harmonization of sequence acquisition and analysis, are all future steps on a roadmap to clinical translation.
Nevertheless, the choice of an ability-matched XLID comparison group in the current study, rather than reliance on general population standardization, has enabled specific deficits to be highlighted.
Future investigation would benefit from the precise qualification of study group airway characteristics, the use of consecutive rather than unselected subjects, the measurement and standardization of operator competency, the blinding of observers, and the standardization of outcome measures.
In fact, a strong argument can be made that standardization will constrain rather than facilitate translational progress.
This may mandate a paradigm shift away from advanced cardiac life support and basic life support, which emphasize standardization of content and format rather than institution- or agency-specific protocols and training.
Due to lack of standardization, prognostics can be considered an art rather than a science.
Automatic rather than operator-guided color thresholding was adopted to achieve maximum standardization.
