The home secretary is still studying submissions from human rights groups and Pinochet supporters before making a final decision on whether the former Chilean dictator can return to Chile.
Journal adoption of the CONSORT statement at the time of data abstraction was defined as the article's journal endorsing, encouraging or enforcing the CONSORT statement for study submissions at the time the article was reviewed for this study.
For combined clinical and non-clinical study submissions, 92.1% were referred back to the investigators and approved after clarification/revision, while 2.7% were deferred due to major/critical changes, and 2.1% not approved due to substantial violations of ethical principles.
Regarding the results of initial review for combined clinical and non-clinical study submissions, 92.1% (268/291) were referred back to investigators and approved after satisfactory clarification and/or revision, while 2.7% (8/291) were deferred, and 2.1% (6/291) not approved.
The B. trehalosi isolates selected for this study originated from field submissions to a diagnostic laboratory.
Data were analysed for the whole study population, after duplicate survey submissions had been removed, and by gender.
FM was involved in the design of the study, submission of ethics, interpretation of the data, and created the first draft of the manuscript.
One centre had only one participant recruited, and it seemed unreasonable to undergo the effort of study submission to the Ethics Committee for this single case.
We have calculated that the CMP database has an average coverage of 45% of general adult critical care units during the period studied, and the submissions studied are therefore representative of approximately 16,000 patients admitted to critical care following oesophagectomy.
The decision came after the commission had studied new submissions made by Bamber's lawyers, who had argued that evidence of a silencer attached to the murder weapon, which formed the main plank of the prosecution's case, was no longer sustainable.
