Doing it retrospectively would not produce an accurate representation of the patient and clinician's perception with regards to their condition requiring surgery.
On the occasion of the exhibition The Kienholz Women in Berlin in 1981/82, Edward Kienholz officially declared that all his work produced since 1972 should be retrospectively understood to be co-authored by his wife.
A threshold of 55% decrease in FDG uptake after the third cycle of chemotherapy was identified retrospectively as the optimal cut-off that produced the most significant difference in metabolic responders (18 patients) versus non-responders (15 patients).
As the Pathfinder SST dataset is reprocessed retrospectively; i.e., the data are not produced in real-time, a different dataset would be needed for a near real-time product.
In Galicia (northwestern Spain) alone, where most Spanish shellfish are produced, 84 cases of V. parahaemolyticus infection were identified retrospectively from hospital records from 1997 to 2000.
Litters produced from both 'severe' SMA and 'Taiwanese' SMA mice were retrospectively genotyped using standard PCR protocols (JAX® Mice Resources; the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine, USA)), as previously described [ 5, 26].
It would be trivial to apply the same methodology for other disease terms retrospectively or prospectively and produce a repository of prioritized relevant publications for further curation and annotation.
The fourth generation iPad (originally marketed as iPad with Retina display, retrospectively marketed as the iPad 4 or iPad 3S) is a tablet computer produced and marketed by Apple Inc.
Its recent release, IGRF-11 (Finlay et al., 2010) comprises retrospectively-produced models for previous epochs from 1900 to 2005 (definitive 1945 2005), an estimate of the main field in 2010 up to spherical harmonic (SH) degree and order 13 and a predictive secular variation up to SH degree and order 8 with predictive value until 2015.
James Baker, a Department of Justice lawyer who has represented the government in surveillance requests before the Fisa court, said that an unclassified summary of its findings could be produced fairly easily in future cases, although it would be harder do this retrospectively.
Obviously, in the mid-70s they couldn't anticipate that music would, at some point, be entirely digitally produced and distributed, with all physicality lost, but if you look at them retrospectively you can't help but realise that they were the crucial game-changers.
