Sentences with phrase «established alternative testing»

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«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

However, initial findings from a recent study by Oakridge National Laboratories established that an HFC - free refrigerant, propane (R - 290), outperformed the energy efficiency of all other alternatives that were tested with it in mini-split air conditioners, at all temperatures and all ambient conditions.

[7] While consideration of such alternative systems is beyond the scope of this Report, they must be seriously considered in view of the legal tests established to gain recognition of native title and the difficulty of changing the fundamental assumptions of these tests within the current system as it is governed by the NTA.

MIT using bibliotherapy was chosen as a comparison group because: (a) it seemed inappropriate to withhold treatment by assigning children to wait - list groups when the efficacy of moderately intensive parent training is well - established; (b) comparisons to alternative treatments provide stronger tests of treatment efficacy than do comparisons to untreated controls; and (c) WLC cause problems in assessing outcomes because WLCs generate a disproportionate number of dropouts that are difficult to address in «completer» analyses (Werba et al., 2006).