Aides said that doctors discovered the blockage in a routine exam of Mr. Kennedy's back and neck, which were injured in an airplane crash in 1964.
The current S.E.C. charges stem from an inquiry opened in October 2006 after a routine exam of Stanford Group, according to Stephen J. Korotash, an associate regional director of enforcement with the agency's Fort Worth office.
In introducing their analysis, the Danish team noted that routine exams consist of "combinations of screening tests, few of which have been adequately studied in randomized trials".
However, skin biopsy cannot presently be considered as a routine exam for the investigation of patients with sensory neuropathy, since it needs to be performed in specialized centres.
And one of the real tragedies of this changing focus in health care, evaluating the well instead of taking care of the sick, has been for physicians to have full clinic schedules of routine exams while the sick must fight to get into clinics or seek care elsewhere, as in urgent care centers or emergency rooms.
Blood was drawn for routine exams at the time of admission.
We excluded patients who were discharged, died, had the urinary catheter removed or needed dialysis before completing these two sets of routine exams.
For the purposes of this study, we analyzed consecutive patients who had a urinary catheter inserted before or at ICU admission and remained with the catheter for at least the first two days of routine exams in the ICU.
We evaluated whether the diagnostic accuracy can be improved by adding a point-of-care-ultrasonography (POC-US) to routine exams and if an early use of this technique produces any advantage.
Recently, several studies showed improvements in care, such as adherence to treatment guidelines and the completion of regular routine exams, as well as patient and clinical outcomes such as quality of life and mortality [ 5, 11- 14] (but also see [ 15]).
