This is surprising, especially for Anglophonic nations like Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the United States, where there are no language barriers preventing such an analysis, and where it is well understood that many of the field's most significant practitioners crossed national boundaries with startling frequency.
Significant to practitioners of age-management medicine was the fact that these diseases also typically occur in normal adults during middle age and later.
37 Although the uptake of research-based clinical guidelines by those working on the ground is imperative (i.e., translating research into practice), it will be just as important to ensure that academic researchers are guided to answer questions that are deemed the most significant by practitioners.
On average, practitioners report 15.3 years of experience (SD = 9.4), also with significant variation by practitioner type.
About half of practitioners were female, 12% were bilingual, and mean age was 53, with significant variation by practitioner type.
There were no significant correlations between practitioner and subject RR during rest, tactile LKM, or post-intervention rest periods.
The ease in using the QuickSleeper system is significant for the practitioner, who does not have to stay focused on the amount of pressure needed for the anaesthetic injection and does not need to use force.
Participants highlighted that there was a significant 'product pushing' practitioner component within their profession and some participants admitted to experiencing personal conflicts in their roles as prescribers and sellers of therapeutic products in their clinics.
Furthermore, the diagnosis of the subclinical seizures types can be very variable from practitioner-to-practitioner and some individuals may be told that an EEG is normal if it contains paroxysmal discharges that are considered to be not clinically significant by the practitioner.
