The duration of response was defined as lasting from the start of treatment to documentation of the disease progression.
This is surprising regarding the diversity of the patients' disease and social characteristics at the start of documentation, hinting again at the capability of physicians and their patients to optimize individual treatment using the spectrum of medications available.
Treatment costs were collected from the start of treatment until the documentation of tumour progression (Park et al, 2003; Watanabe et al, 2003).
The accepted standard of surgical training in each centre will be determined at the start of the trial and specific documentation will be produced for each country to facilitate the recording of details of each operator 'accredited' to operate on women recruited to the trial.
PFS was defined as the period from the start of chemotherapy to documentation of disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurred first.
Four GPs did not start the documentation because of personal reasons (2) and/or disagreement with obtaining patients' consent (3).
This affects all relevant data such as the time of the start of cleaning, the end of cleaning, documentation of the individual reprocessing steps, the staff member operating the washer-disinfector, the device type with its serial number and cleaning position in the washer-disinfector, and documentation of the washer-disinfector type and its serial number.
In the mean 9.0 ± 22.3 (median: 3.0, 99% percentile: 131.0) months had passed between the occurrence of first RA symptoms and diagnosis and 16.3 ± 28.0 (median: 9.0, 99% percentile: 177.0) months between the occurrence of first symptoms and start of documentation.
Because of the documentation required for the credits Mr. Fleming advised taxpayers to start early on the paper chase.
The objectives of the study, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the documentation procedures were discussed in several national meetings before the start of the study.
