9 Despite these recommendations, a study surveying 61 missionary boards found that only 31% recommended hepatitis B vaccination for their staff before international travel.
Despite these recommendations, a study from the Western Cape in South Africa showed that in outpatients with SMI, no patient had a waist circumference measurement.
In an empirical example of clinical practice being at odds with published recommendations, a study conducted in six centres in SE Asia and two in the United States of America, demonstrated a large variation in the use of antibiotic prophylaxis in caesarean section, despite there being strong evidence supporting its use [ 9].
It based its recommendation on a study of 1,639 heart-attack patients in Europe, Canada and the United States.
An overhaul of the fares system was the most eye-catching recommendation in a study by Sir Roy McNulty, former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Basis for such recommendation: A recent study comparing IgE serological assays offered by four different laboratories showed a substantial variation in both results and subsequent ASIT recommendations (QOE 3) [ 28 ].
The panel, which based its recommendations on a study by the RAND Corporation, also determined that black and Hispanic people will become the majority ethnic groups in the armed services within two decades, and it urged the Pentagon to begin aggressively promoting minorities into senior officer positions.
Inexperienced clinicians run the risk of mechanically abiding by recommendations of a study or committee without knowing how to deliberately reflect on the quality of data that is displayed.
We displayed internationally-accepted severity criteria according to the 2001 American Thoracic Society recommendations on a study web-site [ 24].
The form of tutorship in this course was new for the physicians (a more active tutorship, small-group tutoring, recommendations in a study book specific for the course, and engagement as tutor for the student group lasting as long as two terms) [ 6].
