The VITAL standard and its packages provide us with a uniform modeling methodology and a tool box of types, functions, and procedures.
Even among MPs on the right of the Tory party, who had long seen the 51-year-old Scot as a lonely and vital standard bearer for their brand of Conservatism in a coalition cabinet too inclined to bend to the will of Lib Dems, the reaction was one of acceptance.
Establish ongoing process for refining and selecting core measures: build stakeholder agreement on vital, standard measures of performance that are used by payers, regulators, consumers and accreditors to promote public reporting and value-based purchasing schemes across different payers and to harmonise regulation, accreditation and certification.
We work with Centres for Social Work (CSWs), providing vital standards, guidelines and support to develop capacities.
Since the amount of alcohol intake is a vital criterion in the reference standard for an AH diagnosis, underreporting may have led to an underestimation of AH in our study.
Vital signs, standard 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG), physical examination and blood and urine sampling for standard laboratory assessments were performed at all three visits.
As might be expected of this wildly imaginative theater company, what it attempts is preposterous: an exciting journey into the ideas of Galileo, who pushed the Earth aside; Tycho Brahe, whose precise astronomical observations helped establish a vital scientific standard of evidence; and Johannes Kepler, whose laws of elliptical planetary orbits foreshadowed Newton's theory of celestial mechanics.
No obvious differences were observed between treatment groups in physical examination findings, vital signs, standard laboratory analysis (hematology and biochemistry), fundoscopy, or electrocardiogram.
Vital signs, standard laboratory tests, anti-infective therapy and life-supportive interventions were recorded daily until hospital discharge or 30 days postrandomisation, whichever came first.
No clinically relevant differences were observed between treatments in physical examination findings, vital signs, standard laboratory analyses (haematology and biochemistry), fundoscopic examination or ECG.
The following were recorded daily while the patients were receiving norepinephrine in the ICU: vital signs, standard laboratory variables, results for cultures of specimens from new infection sites, and interventions.
