*Patients were not tested on knowledge of symptoms but asked if they recognised they were having a stroke a bystanders b patients or those with the patient at the onset of symptoms c TIA d Minor stroke The quality of reporting varied across studies: very little demographic data were provided and often the findings were reported without recourse to demographic variables.
This might have contributed to a reporting bias with the likely tendency being to over-report recourse to biomedical therapies while under-reporting treatment delays or recourse to 'traditional' or other treatments.
But, in reality, the move was far from pragmatic: more than 70 per cent of runaways go missing without ever being reported and, without recourse to shelter, underage runaways find themselves stuck in a catch-22.
Perlis [ 21] found that 34% of psychiatrists reported not having recourse to guidelines on a regular basis to treat BD, where only a very small percentage identified guidelines as their primary source of information.
However whilst it is true that OA can be defined objectively based on the presence of structural joint pathology or more subjectively based on patient-reported symptoms; both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and NICE actively endorse clinical diagnosis based on patient reported symptoms alone without recourse to investigation [ 15, 16], potentially allaying such concerns.
Four indicators of palliative care were included in the reporting form: a) recourse to a specialized palliative care service (SPCS) such as a mobile team, a call service or a hospital-based unit, b) the administration of opiates, c) the use of any pain measurement scale and d) the use of any other symptoms measurement scale.
An alternative would be to follow the model of the International Monetary Fund and establish an Independent Evaluation Office, which is able to publish reports without recourse from the ministers or officials who invented the policy in the first place.
Compressed nipple, which seems from the description to be inverted nipple, was reported as a common but treatable problem without recourse to a doctor.
We examined a subset of persons who reported OOP only for private care, with no recourse for reimbursement or payment from any third party payer (e.g., employer, health insurance).
After holding jirgas across the tribal areas, these wise men reported that they wanted the black laws repealed, gradual recourse to the laws of the state and the same freedoms as other Pakistanis.
