Many factors contribute to the problem, like poor communication, inadequate discharge instructions, spotty information transfer and delayed outpatient follow-up.
All this leaves adoptive parents in a particularly tough spot, often consumed by their wish for a child and left with spotty information not just about the people and process involved but also about the child they have chosen to adopt.
But he noted that deputies often have seconds to make a life-or-death decision based on spotty information and rapidly changing events.
Even before the war, the South published fewer newspapers than the North, and the naval blockade meant that those newspapers had spottier access to information, while publications grew desperate for paper to print news on.
The power company has had a spotty reputation for concealing information about problems at its nuclear plants, but now the news was filled with constant updates about water, pressure, and radiation levels — and everybody struggled to translate the centimeters, kilopascals, or microsieverts into human terms.
For the target, there might be no space to help clarify, lessen, correct, or even apologise over the roar of reaction; for the aggressors, the target might be the wrong target of outrage, the information could be spotty, non-existent, wrong, and so on.
Still, the record on getting governments in the region to share resources and information has been spotty and several diplomats said concrete action may rest with the United States jump-starting the process -- at a time when the Obama administration's priorities are elsewhere and its chief diplomat for Latin America is preparing to leave.
Local media is getting better at keeping tabs on games and individual players, but there's generally a lag, and the information is often spotty at best.
Poll Workers Disenfranchised Voters With Wrong/Misleading Information Incompetent and spotty training of poll workers made it questionable whether voters would receive the proper ballot in person.
This finding underlines the importance of careful mapping before initiating MDA for LF in central Africa, where the infection is often highly focal and historical information on prevalence is spotty.
Data are spotty; definitions vary.
