In this study, written informed consent for participation was not obtained from the participants: we regarded the reply as signifying agreement to participate as explained in the document that we sent together with the questionnaire to each facility.
They did not address specific questions that the Guardian had asked regarding the meeting, replying: "About what you said in the fax, there is no such thing".
The physicians were blinded regarding the participants replies on the questionnaire.
For these values, we used data from correspondence regarding the Wai study (reply to [ Samuels et al., 2010]), and manually normalise the Jenuth dataset.
Thus, if a patient with IBS attends a GP consultation, GPs will give them the patient information sheet regarding the trial, and the reply slip and envelope.
Doing so would ameliorate stakeholder concerns regarding the burden of replying, privacy or security, and potential for misunderstanding replies.
Regarding the description of replies concerning parameters that require a specific technique (e.g., extravascular lung water (EVLW), which can only be measured with the PiCCO device (PULSION Medical systems; Munich, Germany)), we selected only those replies from physicians working in ICUs where this device was available.
Using the replies regarding the illness (related to symptoms, length of illness, recurrence, medication etc)., we classified illnesses into four categories: acute, chronic, accidents and undefined.
The departmental responsible professional distributed a closed envelope containing the questionnaire, an information letter regarding the survey and a reply envelope to the patient, and then collected the reply envelope containing the questionnaire when the patient had responded.
Trudeau's stock reply regarding the inspiration for Duke has been "I'd rather not talk about this, either on or off the record".
Hypotheses and observations on the origin of the landscape of southern Norway – a reply regarding the isostasy climate erosion hypothesis by Nielsen et al., 2008.
