The questions characterizing the current episode of back pain included the baseline dysfunction score (Roland score), the baseline bothersomeness score, if there were any of 3 types of activity limitations in the last month described in the previous paragraph (yes vs. no), medication use in the past week (narcotics, any other, none,) and pain below the knee (yes vs. no).
The questionnaire did not include question characterizing different headache types (i.e. Migraine, Tension).
Joseph R. Baker III, president of the Medicare Rights Center, a nonprofit organization that operates a hot line for patients with questions, characterized the volume of calls about the bill as moderate.
At that time, its frontiers had not been clearly established, and unresolved border questions characterized Lithuania's foreign relations throughout the interwar period.
He is, however, still thinking about the larger philosophical questions, characterizing the conflict as one between an old-fashioned authoritarian organization and a public-minded company granting anyone the ability to participate in discovery.
"Yes" responses to all four questions characterized treatment effectiveness [11, 12].
Measurement theory answers the question by characterizing the allowable transformations of a utility function ways of changing it that leave all of its meaningful features intact.
We have reinvestigated the question of characterizing solutions to principal-agent problems, from the necessary conditions for an optimum, in economies where individual characteristics θ become unknown.
Thus, this paper examines the question: What characterizes the views on risks of negative interactions between herbal medicine and conventional drug therapies among members of the Danish MS Society, who combine these two types of medicine?
The questions were characterized with regard to type of category (e.g. adverse effects, interactions, pregnancy), occupation and workplace of enquirer, if the questions were patient-specific (concerned a particular patient) or general (concerned guidelines for clinical practice or a population of patients or based on academic interest).
