John Ross Scott, board chair at NHS Orkney, said:"Initially, in February and March, we undertook a pilot study using five non-executive directors, including myself, as guinea pigs.
Last year, the Department of Education and the School Construction Authority undertook a pilot study under the E.P.A.'s oversight to examine PCBs in caulk and other potential sources in five school buildings.
We undertook a pilot study to assess the feasibility of the implementation of a laparoscopic VR simulation programme into a single unit.
We undertook a pilot project to estimate the utility of these QIs for an independent external quality assessment in daily routine colposcopy.
Perhaps worst of all, he had made enemies of veterans' organizations by allowing cemeteries for veterans to fall into disrepair and undertaking a pilot program allowing nonveterans to be treated in a small number of his department's hospitals.
Anxiety about the dangers posed by PCBs began rising last summer after the city undertook a pilot testing program with the E.P.A. that revealed levels of air contamination exceeding federal health guidelines.
We undertook a pilot investigation of a combination of nutraceutical nutrient compounds which are involved in mitochondrial function and energy generation, to assess their efficacy in improving symptoms of CFS.
Based on the high prevalence of disability in the dialysis population, we undertook a pilot study to determine functional impairment at the time of admission and again at 1 week after discharge.
To undertake a pilot study assessing effectiveness of a tailored training programme in behaviour change counselling (BCC) for community pharmacists on, their competence and confidence in delivering behaviour change consultations, skill retention over time and impact on practice.
To test whether macrophages could also infiltrate early lesions in humans, we undertook a pilot analysis of a small number of patient samples and compared macrophages in healthy human breast tissue vs. tissue from DCIS lesions as a model of early-stage breast cancer lesions.
