If fetal growth is dependent upon ethnic heritage, the potential for misclassification of fetal growth abnormalities through the wide-scale application of existing growth reference charts should generate concerns regarding diagnostic and management decisions made on the basis of ultrasonographic fetal growth assessments.
The most common references were concern regarding poor quality of long-term care, which also tends to vary widely between and within countries (documents b, and e).
This has evoked some concerns regarding the validity of these reference planes because living organisms are hardly ever perfectly symmetric and a degree of facial asymmetry is a common phenomenon in nature [ 1, 12, 13].
B) Concerns regarding structural figures and discussion: 9) It would be helpful if authors referenced Figure 3 figure supplement 2 early, when describing the overall structure, to make it easier for the reader to follow the discussion.
In addition, concerns regarding the applicability of the patient population, index and reference test to the review question were rated by the observers as high, low or unclear.
This should raise concerns regarding the validity of the experts' judgments as a valid reference standard for SCT.
With QUADAS-2, only three of 47 studies (6.4%) had a low risk of bias in all domains (patient selection, index test, reference standard and flow and timing); 37 of 47 studies (78.8%) had low concerns regarding applicability.
The Commission finally agreed to include in the text a vague reference to 'unhampered diffusion' of CO2-efficient technologies in order to cater for ACEA's concerns regarding fiscal measures.
Although SCT is an interesting test to evaluate clinical decision-making in emergency medicine, our results raise concerns regarding whether the judgments of an expert panel are sufficiently valid as the reference standard for this test.
Howman dismissed concerns regarding athletes' civil liberties.
Concerns regarding performance measures include technical concerns (eg, validity, risk adjustment, sample size, and accuracy considerations), concerns regarding the cost of implementation, and concerns regarding unintended consequences.
