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In each case, I watched in horror -- sometimes retrospectively -- as the doctors and hospitals stayed laser-focused on administering measures to prolong life that wound up just prolonging dying.
Partial interval recording techniques, sometimes retrospectively analysed using video recordings, deliver a measure of the changes in levels of alertness and contextual variables.
The various published scores and models were not tested in our study, as these were most often based on heterogeneous populations, particularly with regard to the age of the patients and the etiology of meningitis, sometimes retrospectively [ 8, 10, 36, 43, 44].
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Finally, they were sometimes initiated retrospectively, at times, long after the event, particularly when trainees had completed insufficient tools during their placements (see table 4).
Exposures of limited duration corresponding to disasters (e.g., famine), availability of regulated or withdrawn compounds (e.g., DES), or therapeutic indications of limited duration (e.g., ART) can sometimes be retrospectively assessed with reasonable accuracy.
Nevertheless, also in prospective cohort studies, exposure assessment is sometimes done retrospectively, i.e. an exposure assessment is added to existing health data because time and money for exposure assessment at the beginning of a study are limited and often new exposures become of interest only after the study has been going on for some time.
For example, HCPs who RN had not previously met and therefore had not had the opportunity to explain the research to, would join outpatient appointments where RN was present as an observer, which meant explaining the research and obtaining written consent would sometimes occur retrospectively.
Due to organizational impairments, the inclusion process was delayed and data regarding ILIs were collected retrospectively, sometimes up to 6 months after the epidemic.
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