The liposarcoma group did not meet its prespecified end point at the end of stage 1 and did not progress to stage 2. A total of 142 patients were enrolled and there were nine documented PRs, with at least 14 patients receiving more than 1 year of protocol therapy.
The trial is planned to last a total of 5 years, consisting of: protocol development (6 months), training (3 months), main recruitment (9 months), follow-up (36 months), and analysis (6 months).
That conversation, a disruption of nearly 40 years of diplomatic protocol designed to reassure China, caused no shortage of awkwardness among conference attendees.
China distrusts Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and has stepped up pressure on her after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump broke years of diplomatic protocol and took a congratulatory call last month from her. Trump then riled China by casting doubt on the "one China" policy that Beijing regards as the basis of U.S.-Chinese relations.
The introduction in the last 5 years of strict protocols in order to control asepsis in our ICU, combined with the use of Clorexidina and alcoholic gel, have drastically reduced the contamination from S. epidermidis.
The median number of years between publication of protocol and review was 2 (IQR 1, 3).
A principal aim was to discuss measures for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions during the remaining seven years of the Kyoto Protocol and to consider the steps that might follow.
In other words, Dominic Grieve wants to shuck off the past 450 years of British parliamentary protocol and take us back to 1642, the last time Parliament imposed its will over the executive.
Our results indicate that for every four published Cochrane reviews, one review remained unpublished based on one year of Cochrane protocols.
This was the first time that a quarterly rotation of empirical antibiotics used for 1 year was compared with the previous year of non-protocol-driven use in critically ill patients.
