The publication and success of this consensus document [2] led to the demand for a similar document regarding VTE prophylaxis in the remaining major orthopaedic surgeries, the so-called minor orthopaedic surgeries and orthopaedic trauma.
These findings illustrate the success of the consensus approach to discordance in screen reading.
Thus the amplification success of our consensus primers does not suggest that primers do not have to be a good (or perfect) match for amplification success.
However, a number of studies have shown that panel size is not always a good indicator of the success of a consensus exercise [ 29, 30].
The success of a consensus approach is also expected to vary with the sensitivity and accuracy of the somatic mutation prediction algorithms.
Given the limited predictive success and the lack of consensus in social sciences, their conclusions can seldom be primary guides to setting policy.
We also published a paper in 2014 in which Kothari et al. described the success of a process of consensus building between diverse stakeholders to build a public health systems research agenda in Ontario, Canada, using an approach developed in the USA [ 54].
As for the commission's interpretation of success, a consensus has not yet been reached.
Attempts have been made to define structural modules in proteins in such a manner that they would correspond to exons [ 25, 26] but, despite claims of success, the consensus remains that there is no objective support for such a correspondence [ 14, 15, 17, 28- 31].
These findings provide evidence-based clinical trial support for the success of the tier 1 consensus strategy from the ADA/EASD [ 1], recommending the addition of basal insulin (or SU therapy) to MET monotherapy plus lifestyle intervention at step 2 (i.e. if MET plus lifestyle intervention alone is unable to achieve glycaemic control).
