Sentences with phrase «assess available evidence»

Immediate efforts to preserve and assess available evidence are crucial, as is the deepest understanding of the medical records and the surrounding medicine.

Here we assess the available evidence and decide whether it supports or refutes a root cause.

This review seeks to objectively assess the available evidence of the impacts of climate change on glacier hydrology and the wider implications upon water resources within the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra basins.

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In March 2013, a group of researchers, clinicians and advocates (later named the Consortium for Risk - Based Firearm Policy) assembled at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to assess the available evidence concerning guns and mental health.

RAND researchers evaluated thousands of studies to assess the available evidence for the effect of 13 common gun policies on a range of outcomes, including injuries and deaths, mass shootings, defensive gun use, and participation in hunting and sport shooting.

Not exact matches

Both studies were meta - analyses of the available evidence which assessed peer - reviewed papers.

A major limitation of this study is that it can not assess which interpretation of the available evidence is truly accurate.

Coloured icons indicate that there is evidence of a direct link between the intervention of interest and target (s); i.e. systematic reviews are available assessing the effect of the intervention on an outcome directly relevant to the targets (e.g. prevalence of stunting, rate of breastfeeding, etc.).

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

However, without a reliable means to assess the quality of the evidence, it is not possible to interpret the best available data and its implications for the safety of women and infants.

The amount of evidence will continue to expand as more countries implement standardized packaging and as studies assessing the longer - term effects of the Australian policy become available.

Although it notes that the evidence available «has limitations» and recommending further research, the agency says that all neonicotinoids should now be assessed for their potential developmental neurotoxicity.

The U.S. EPA in fact has no list of «endocrine disruptors» at all — preferring to assess chemicals on a case - by - case basis; taking into account the entire body of toxicological evidence available; and factoring in actual human exposure levels.

The researchers offer four steps for improving the review process: develop methodological standards for evaluating evidence used to back off - label drug recommendations; combine the findings into one «single, rigorously developed resource» rather than five inconsistent reference guides; assess whether those reviewing and determining off - label drug use policies have potential financial conflicts of interest; and make the compendia listings, which currently are only available by subscription, free to the public.

The many calls for «evidence based» decisionmaking notwithstanding, most of our major policy and reform initiatives have either been launched without any prior research on their efficacy, and without provisions for assessing their intended and unintended effects, or have ignored or misused whatever relevant research evidence was available when...

All assessed work is kept as evidence and is available for scrutiny.

Their prognosis, «There is high agreement and much evidence that all stabilization levels assessed can be achieved by deployment of a portfolio of technologies that are either currently available or expected to be commercialized in coming decades, assuming appropriate and effective incentives are in place for their development, acquisition, deployment and diffusion and addressing related barriers.»

There is «low confidence» that tropical cyclones have become more frequent, «limited - to - medium evidence available» to assess whether climatic factors have changed the frequency of floods, and «low confidence» on a global scale even on whether the frequency has risen or fallen.

Roger Pielke Jr. quotes the IPCC Special Report on Extreme Weather (SREX), which references «limited to medium evidence» available to assess climate - driven changes in floods.

«By considering only the level of agreement among experts, you ignore the key element of assessing the amount of evidence available upon which to base a judgment»

Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: General Provisions -(Sec. 1401) Expresses the sense of Congress that federal agencies assessing risks to human health and the environment from energy technology, production, transport, transmission, distribution, storage, use, or conservation activities shall: (1) use sound and objective scientific practices in assessing such risks; (2) consider the best available science (including peer reviewed studies); and (3) describe the weight of the scientific evidence concerning such risks.

However, in order to properly assess the evidence — and thus make the best judgement possible given the available evidence — one needs to clearly distinguish between what is fact and what is opinion, because facts clearly carry more weight than opinions (or at least, they should!).

Michael Dyck will critically assess the facts and evidence in your case and explain all the available options to help you determine the best course of action.

In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Michael Moldaver, also writing for Justice Suzanne Côté, found that «the majority has departed from the functional approach of threshold reliability by unduly restricting the extrinsic evidence that a jury could can consider when assessing a statement's substantive reliability and by adopting a narrow view of the procedural safeguards available at trial than can equip the jury with the tools it needs to assess the ultimate reliability of a statement.»

From there I will explain what happens as a claim progresses including what we do as lawyers to collect the evidence we need to assess liability (who's at fault) and quantum (the amount of damages that may be available to you).

The prosecutor therefore has the important task of independently assessing the legal and factual circumstances of each case as well as the available evidence.

We also assessed the strength of the available evidence (SOE), which is our degree of confidence that the observed effect of an intervention is unlikely to change with further research.

Research suggests that in the process of choosing a home visiting model, there are benefits to assessing your community's needs, goals, and available resources, and the fit of the evidence - based model you are considering.

Specifically, the provider must use reasonable judgment and current medical evidence or the best available evidence, to individually assess: