Screened patients were systematically asked for typical FD symptoms; each of the de novo patients reported one or more of the following: episodes of hand/foot pain during fever, angiokeratoma, and family history of heart disease.
Also, participants had not been systematically asked for reasons for withdrawal or when returning after a period of non-response.
Thus, variables are not systematically asked for or documented for a given patient and decisions are not made from exactly the same set of criteria.
Although unlike [12], [13], Hillis et al. did not systematically ask subjects for their perception of multisensory unity or not for each stimulus, this comment strongly suggests that the subjects in [17] did infer and use the information about the unusual structure in their task (as they have in other related experiments [12], [13], [15]).
However, our experience with officials was that the real value in undertaking the analysis was to help them more systematically ask questions, for example, focusing on the underlying constraints and root causes of demand-side weaknesses in health care as well as the traditional focus on supply-side constraints.
The final analysis used matrices (table formats) to summarise the data from the different sources and systematically ask questions of the data and look for negative cases.
We found that having a laboratory professional contact the clinician and systematically ask the scripted questions was a pragmatic tool for the first phase of response and resulted in cancellation of most tests.
For the same reason, we did not systematically ask parents declining at each of the subsequent steps, especially pre-test and training participation, for their specific reasons for declining.
For eight years now, the UN has systematically asked governments, corporations and victims of human rights abuses: 'What are the human rights responsibilities of companies?'.
