Claims analysis

Caplan RA, Ward RJ, Posner K, Cheney FW. Unexpected cardiac arrest during spinal anesthesia a closed claims analysis of predisposing factors. Anesthesiology 1988 68(1) 5-11. 

Stempel DA, Meyer JW, Stanford RH, Yancey SW. One-year claims analysis comparing inhaled fluticasone propionate with zafirlukast for the treatment of asthma. J Allergy CUn Inununol 2001 107 94-98. 

Figure 15.39 shows a number of total crumbling warranty claims related to the month in which the deck was installed. A total of 1099 claims are shown for which the installation time is on the record. Claim analysis shows that the average time between the defective deck installation and the respective claim is 13.3 6.5 months, that is, approximately 13 months. The median of this time is also 13 months. 

Currently, the assay of carbohydrates is a very important criterion for the quality control of drinks and foodstuffs, especially in dietary products. Assay of carbohydrates is also very important in the fields of monitoring of food-labeling claims, analysis of sweeteners, bulking agents, and fat substitutes as well as for establishing authenticity and in the fermentation monitoring in the production of alcoholic beverages. 

Claims analysis Provides multiple perspectives Hindsight bias... 

Lee LA, Posner KL, Cheney FW, Caplan RA, Domino KB. Complications associated with eye blocks and peripheral nerve blocks an American Society of Anesthesiologists closed claims analysis. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2008 33(5) 416-22. 

Liang, C., Li, L., Fraser, C.D., Ko, A., Corzo, D., Enger, C., Patt, D., 2015. The treatment patterns, efficacy, and safety of nab ( )-paclitaxel for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in the United States results from health insurance claims analysis. BMC Cancer 15 (1), 1019. 

In response to the first office action, the appHcant may file a series of amendments (step 6) and should provide substantial reasoning and analysis to explain the reasons that the pubHcation(s) cited by the examiner do(es) not disclose the invention as it has been claimed. The patent appHcant s response should also comply with the examiner s request for correcting formal problems in the appHcation. 

Owing to poor volatihty, derivatization of nicotinic acid and nicotinamide are important techniques in the gc analysis of these substances. For example, a gc procedure has been reported for nicotinamide using a flame ionisation detector at detection limits of - 0.2 fig (58). The nonvolatile amide was converted to the nitrile by reaction with heptafluorobutryic anhydride (56). For a related molecule, quinolinic acid, fmol detection limits were claimed for a gc procedure using either packed or capillary columns after derivatization to its hexafluoroisopropyl ester (58). 

Limits of detection become a problem in capillary electrophoresis because the amounts of analyte that can be loaded into a capillary are extremely small. In a 20 p.m capillary, for example, there is 0.03 P-L/cm capillary length. This is 1/100 to 1/1000 of the volume typically loaded onto polyacrylamide or agarose gels. For trace analysis, a very small number of molecules may actually exist in the capillary after loading. To detect these small amounts of components, some on-line detectors have been developed which use conductivity, laser Doppler effects, or narrowly focused lasers (qv) to detect either absorbance or duorescence (47,48). The conductivity detector claims detection limits down to lO molecules. The laser absorbance detector has been used to measure some of the components in a single human cell (see Trace AND RESIDUE ANALYSIS). 

Traditional cost analysis often fails to include factors relevant to future damage claims resulting from htigation, the depletion of nat-... 

Trace element analysis has become sufficiently important, especially to industrial users, that commercial laboratories specialising in trace and ultratrace elemental analysis are springing up. One such company specialises in high-resolution glow-discharge mass spectromety , which can often go, it is claimed, to better than parts per billion. This company s advertisements also offer a service, domiciled in India, to provide various forms of wet chemical analysis which, it is claimed, is now nearly impossible to find in the United States . 

Customer complaints Warranty claims Failure analysis reports Process capability studies Service reports Concessions Change requests Subcontractor assessments Performance analysis Deviations and waivers Contract change records Quality cost data External Quality Audit records... 

The study of composite materials actually involves many topics, such as, for example, manufacturing processes, anisotropic elasticity, strength of anisotropic materials, and micromechanics. Truly, no one individual can claim a complete understanding of all these areas. Any practitioner will be likely to limit his attention to one or two subareas of the broad possibilities of analysis versus design, micromechanics versus macromechanics, etc. 

Direct analysis with the fluoride lon-selective electrode requires addition of total ionic strength adjustor buffer solution (TISAB) to the standard and to unknown samples Some advantages of this addition are that it provides a constant background ion strength, ties up interfenng cations such as aluminum or iron, which form a complex with fluoride ions, and maintains the pH between 5 0 and 5 5 According to the manufacturer s claim, reproducibility of direct electrode measurement IS 2 0%, and the accuracy for fluonde ion measurement is 0 2% [27]... 

It was claimed that the polymer 89 volatilized by heating as speeies, iiidieated by mass speetrometrie analysis, to inelude the 1,2-dithietane 90 (62JOC3995 65JOC4188). 

This Committee published its own technical rules, many of which were later incorporated into British Standards. It continues to make an active contribution to standards, guidance notes, legislation and international policy on inspection. Some independent inspection bodies have no connection with insurance but many do, and these companies have the advantage of feedback from an analysis of insurance claims. 

Pre-cracked specimens are sometimes useful for other reasons than the analysis that they afiford in relation to stress-intensity factors. Such applications may be associated with the simulation of service situations, the relative ease with which stress-corrosion cracks can be initiated at pre-cracks or the advantages that sometimes accrue from the propagation of a single crack. The claim that has sometimes been made of pre-cracked specimen tests-that they circumvent the initiation stage of cracking in plain specimens, erroneously assumed invariably to be related to the creation of a corrosion pit that provides a measure of stress concentration approaching that... 

In more recent times, large doses of vitamin C have been claimed to prevent the common cold, cure infertility, delay the onset of symptoms in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and inhibit the development of gastric and cervical cancers. None of these claims have been backed by medical evidence, however. In the largest study yet done of the effect of vitamin C on the common cojd, a meta-analysis of more than 100 separate trials covering 40,000 people found no difference in the incidence of colds between those who took supplemental vitamin G regularly and those who did not. When taken during a cold, however, vitamin C does appear to decrease the cold s duration by 8%. 

The function of the analyst is to obtain a result as near to the true value as possible by the correct application of the analytical procedure employed. The level of confidence that the analyst may enjoy in his results will be very small unless he has knowledge of the accuracy and precision of the method used as well as being aware of the sources of error which may be introduced. Quantitative analysis is not simply a case of taking a sample, carrying out a single determination and then claiming that the value obtained is irrefutable. It also requires a sound knowledge of the chemistry involved, of the possibilities of interferences from other ions, elements and compounds as well as of the statistical distribution of values. The purpose of this chapter is to explain some of the terms employed and to outline the statistical procedures which may be applied to the analytical results. 

As this indicates, Brush s view of other historical cases (see for example Brush, 1989) has been that, whatever philosophers of science may claim about the relative merits of prediction and accommodation, there is no historical evidence that the scientists concerned in these cases gave any special weight to predictive success. But he feels forced by the evidence in the case of Mendeleev to conclude that there—perhaps uniquely—special weight was indeed given to predictions. We will argue that the historical evidence that Brush himself alludes to in fact, on careful analysis, fails to support this conclusion. 

If this is a correct analysis of it, then the chief problem with Brush s overall account—aside from any issue about the historical evidence in its favour—is that, by agreeing with Maher and Lipton that the novel predictions counted more while denying that they counted sufficiently more to outweigh the total effect of the accommodations, it ends up in no man s land. Brush may have an explanation for why special attention should have been paid to the predictive successes (they carried a lot of impact per unit , as it were) but this does not, despite his claims and despite, perhaps, first appearances, translate into an explanation for what he accepts is the historical fact that Mendeleev s periodic law attracted little attention before 1874—that is, before the initial success of the predictions. What his account would lead us to expect is, on the contrary, a high rate of credit for, and interest in, Mendeleev s scheme before 1874 and a somewhat higher rate afterwards. 

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