He said the "best guess" the hospital could make was that the clinical midwife manager in question was Ann Maria Burke and that she had been accompanied by a student midwife.
Even after the long-awaited reports of two large long-term clinical trials designed to answer the question, we still have uncertainties.
This is because any clinical trial is really only able to answer one question.
Two clinical trials published in 2009 aimed to answer that question.
But the other big question for expanding results is whether large clinical trials that are now ongoing will show that it works in a broader array of heart patients.
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The only question remaining revolved around Guidant's ability to use clinical data from Cook trials conducted before the acquisition.
Still, the question remains whether prayers by ordinary people can produce an equivalent clinical impact.
There was absolutely no question of me taking part in decisions which will be made on clinical evidence, they'll be made after extensive consultation.
The clinical benefits of either ezetimibe alone or combining ezetimibe with statin therapy have recently come into question.
One big question: would the limited data Sarepta has so far collected from a very small clinical trial of its drug eteplirsen, a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that is caused by a very specific type of mutation, be enough to warrant filing with the Food and Drug Administration and perhaps even gain approval?
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Enter economists, like the ones who studied Oregon, to settle the question of how important insurance really is, using techniques similar to how drug companies run clinical trials.
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"The question is proportionality, " said Dr. Kevin Schulman, director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and one of the study authors.
The biggest question remains how quickly tests such as this will move from being essentially research tools to being real clinical tests that are conducted in commercial laboratories and are paid for by insurers.
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