(1) Deferrals for low hematocrit were significantly higher for both sexes at and above 45 degrees F. Similar experiences were also observed in 79,563 donors who came to the bloodmobiles over 19 months in 1983 and 1984.
(2) The risk of a combined end point, severe visual loss or vitrectomy, was low in eyes assigned to deferral (6% at 5 years) and was reduced by early photocoagulation (4% at 5 years).
(3) Based on questionnaires given to 1247 donors with subsequent follow-up of their donation records for 6 months, permanent psychological effects of deferral are suggested.
(4) The indolent nature and benign appearance of these lesions shold not lead to deferral of complete evaluation and appropriate treatment.
(5) To minimize this risk, the reasons for deferral of donation need to be communicated more effectively to blood donors who are at high risk of HIV infection, and new assays that detect HIV infection earlier should be evaluated for their effectiveness in screening donated blood.
(6) Deferrals from prior years increased by £700m relative to 2009.
(7) Of the £1.6bn increase, some £1bn was caused by BarCap, which has been hiring more people and investing in infrastructure as well incurring costs from new deferral pay deals being demanded by the Financial Services Authority.
(8) Elevated temperature was unable to suppress growth of C. albicans in either a control culture medium or a deferrated culture medium.
(9) This is where the pleasure lies, in the endless deferrals rather than the promised beatings.
(10) A similar request for deferral, by 21-year-old Tolokonnikova, is still pending.
(11) Changes in percentages of donor deferrals associated with changes in the capillary tube size used for microhematocrit determinations led us to study the variables which influence microhematocrit values.
(12) He also contends that the president’s deferral of deportations of young people who were brought to the US as children illegally by their parents – known as Dreamers – has acted as a magnet for illegal migrants.
(13) The US is behaving like a tax haven by operating a deferral system which allows US companies to stash profits offshore,” said Cato.
(14) The National Housing Federation, which represents English housing associations, welcomed the deferral but warned that the sector still faced “substantial uncertainty” because of the threat of the cap being introduced at a later stage.
(15) Capillary RBC ZP measurements in combination with the MH test have the potential to safely decrease inappropriate anemia deferrals.
(16) One eye of each patient was assigned randomly to early photocoagulation and the other to deferral of photocoagulation.
(17) Among most first-time donors, temporary deferral may be interpreted psychologically as providing a permanent excuse for not donating.
(18) "It will not be a plan we can accept," its report said, because of worries about the "deferral dates for some facilities".
(19) Epidemiologic and behavioral data from seropositive donors will help in the development and evaluation of future donor deferral strategies.
(20) Addition of heterologous siderophores from both bacteria and fungi also supported growth of the yeast in a deferrated medium.
Prepayment
Definition:
(n.) Payment in advance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(2) The three prepayment plans appealed to different population groups.
(3) Thus prepayment in an organized setting did change hospital and ambulatory care utilization but did not reduce medical care costs.
(4) A group practice prepayment plan in Baltimore had consumers on its governing board and, in alliance with a powerful medical institution, successfully organized around political, economic, and social issues.
(5) Ofgem data showed that in 2014 around 130,000 electricity and 103,000 gas customers switched to credit meters – just 3% of all prepayment customers.
(6) A spokesman for Ofgem says: "The supplier is obligated to supply information on how a customer can obtain assistance if a prepayment meter is not operating effectively, including details of timescales for removal and resetting of the meter if that action is necessary."
(7) We studied the impact on use of services of only one factor-prepayment at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin--with all other factors, including group practice, held constant.
(8) He added: “Tens of millions of pounds have been spent by the CMA and the companies themselves just to produce this low-key set of remedies.” Atherton is not convinced about the value of plans to cap prepayment meter bills and introduce an industry-wide customer database controlled by the industry regulator, Ofgem.
(9) Our research shows many prepay meter customers have to fork out hundreds of pounds more than those on online direct debit deals.
(10) The slow adoption of sealants into dental practice is attributed partly to the fact that few prepayment plans pay for sealants.
(11) The curative health services are decentralized and provide care through a variety of plans which combine capitation prepayment and modified fee-for service.
(12) He told MPs: "The initial phase of [a government] review has concluded and we will shortly start a consultation on a range of options, including plans to extend charging to some visitors and temporary residents who were previously exempt so that the default qualification for free NHS care would be permanent, not temporary, residence; ending free access to primary care for all visitors and tourists; introducing a prepayment or insurance requirement for temporary visitors to pay for NHS healthcare; and improving how the NHS can identify, charge and recover charges where they should apply.
(13) Employees joining or not joining three newly marketed prepayment plans were surveyed during the first marketing period and during another open enrollment period 18 months later.
(14) The CMA said it was considering remedies to fix the market, including removing barriers to switching, possible price controls and measures to prompt prepayment customers to switch by allowing other suppliers to contact them to offer better tariffs.
(15) In most respects, there were no adverse effects on the work relations of physicians, in the perceived quality of medical care, or in the institutional performance of physicians at the nine participating hospitals after the introduction of prepayment.
(16) Giving prepay meter customers a better deal is a crucial part of this.” Co-operative Energy said it was cutting its prepayment rates.
(17) Medicare will not be the only benefactor of this new scheme as prepayment spreads to other payors and providers of health care.
(18) In addition, although about one-half of persons with psychiatric disorders are believed to have their only contact with health care providers in the primary care sector, research findings suggest that depression often remains undetected and untreated in this secto; and there have been few data on how appropriateness of care for depression differs for patients in different health care delivery systems, or whose care is financed by prepayment or fee-for-service arrangements.
(19) Citizens Advice called for an extension of a recent price cap by the regulator Ofgem for 4m households on prepayment meters .
(20) A number of trends over the past decade predict that this transference to prepayment will continue in the future and will have a profound impact on the future practice of family medicine.