Moreover, there was a lack of standardization of outcome measures, no clear statement of primary outcome measure, and much variation in the selection of control treatment, in the duration of treatments, in the duration of observation and in the method of acupuncture or moxibustion treatment.
First, the program is vacuous — for the most part it's a statement of desired outcomes, not policies.
The approach is well suited to development programmes where data is likely to reflect 'progress toward results', rather than a definitive statement of final outcomes.
We did not detect statistically significant gains in other components of experimental design, such as identification of experimental system, treatment, assay, quantity measured, identification of controls, and statement of anticipated outcomes.
Therefore deficits or surpluses are neither good nor bad, but simply an accounting statement of the outcome of the government's current taxing and spending regime.
In fact, when uncertainty is expressed as a statement of plausible outcome and/or significance, expressing uncertainty is a very informative statement of knowledge.
Both countries need to remember that military plans are worst case scenarios designed to hedge against risk, not statements of preferred outcomes.
Based on the items' scores for basic standards, the nine fields were ranked as follows (in descending order): 1. Mission and outcomes: professionalism and autonomy; statements of mission and outcomes; training outcomes; and participation in the formulation of mission and outcomes.
