Guidelines and recommendations - Patient selection and preparationJ. Renkin
(2018). Patient Preparation, Vascular Access, and Guiding Catheter Selection. In: Watson, T., Ong, P., Tcheng, J. (eds) Primary Angioplasty. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1114-7_7 Download citation .RIS .ENW .BIB DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-...
Both sites participate in improvement and research projects, and more than 15% of their patients are Medicare beneficiaries. All clinicians at the sites were invited to participate as were their patients who met eligibility criteria. The selection and recruitment of the practice and participating ...
We are very pleased to introduce a series of six individual papers addressing important areas in bariatric and metabolic surgery. Particularly, these papers highlight patient selection, preparation for surgery, and optimizing outcomes. The metabolic benefits of surgery are well established, but adequate ...
Study selection Two reviewers applied inclusion criteria for potentially eligible articles separately, with disagreements about study inclusion resolved by consensus. Randomized controlled trials were eligible for analysis if they included at least 1 group receiving acupuncture needling and 1 group receiving ...
Patient selection bias cannot be excluded because some anatomies were preferably treated with one type of THV instead of another type of THV (patient-tailored TAVR)—however, this is routine practice at most centers. Also, the observation that native or bioprosthetic aortic valve leaflets are not...
78,79 As such, an argument can be made that these alternative devices should complement and not necessarily replace DL at this time. Irrespective of the technique chosen, proficiency demands elective experience in human subjects. Table 2 Effectiveness of a selection of alternatives to direct ...
a Selection of APC-ms-primed CAR-T cell products for in vivo analysis. Three CAR-T cell products (0.1 mol%, 0.15 mol%, and 0.3 mol% APC-ms; abbreviated A0.1, A0.15, and A0.3, respectively) derived from an ALL sample (ALL10) were used. Properties of the selected CAR-...
The NSQIP uses a systematic sampling process to identify cases that is designed to avoid bias in case selection and to ensure a diverse mix of surgical cases.22,23 Surgical clinical reviewers at each site, who are trained and undergo regular audits and quality checks, collect data on more ...
Sample Selection We selected the target sample size to achieve a prespecified degree of precision around estimates of continuous end points. With approximately 180 respondents, the half width of the 95% CI would be 0.15 SDs. For instance, if the SD of the responses to a particular item were ...