To obtain information about public willingness towards surrogate consent in the setting of critical care, all participants received a standardised verbal explanation guided by a script.
Patients contacted in this manner will be asked to contact the research team if they are interested in participating and then the research team will give a standardised verbal explanation of the study by phone, complete the recruitment proforma, and then send out the phase 1 patient pack.
We divided the students into three groups, following the standardised test score explanation, e.g. TOEFL https://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/scores/understand/.org/toefl/ibt/scores/understand/
To ensure consistency in delivery and content of the intervention, rheumatologists had to use a pre-printed data collection form following algorithms proposed in the National Institutes of Health guidelines to provide this standardised programme, use similar language and explanations at each step of the programme, and provide specific leaflets to patients.
In addition, both physiotherapists will have completed two comprehensive training sessions together for explanation and discussion of the standardised intervention protocol for the trial.
It is entirely possible to see this as the explanation of the difference between 27.9 %, the standardised prevalence in the Terai of Nepal, and 25.2 %, the standardised prevalence in Karnataka [23] (which is at a mean altitude of about 900 m [28]).
The researcher asked whether they had understood the explanation in response to a set of standardised questions (these feedback interviews were also audio-recorded and transcribed).
One explanation for this difference may be that the age-standardised neuroblastoma rate was about 30% higher in the Western countries than in Denmark during this period, almost exclusively explained by a much higher incidence in children below 12 months of age (Spix et al, 2006).
Standardised coefficients of regression and the partial square eta statistic were used to summarise the weight of explanation that could be accounted for by each factor.
There may be two explanations for this finding: (1) the measurement method, asking for direct experiences instead of standardised questionnaires and (2) the close relationship of our physicians with their patients as a result of regular follow-up, which might have been intensified by the randomised trial [ 62].
