Among the 1484 eligible persons (1038 in the initial sample and 446 in the 2nd sample), 470 (31.7%) returned a completed questionnaire, 318 (21.4%) expressed an explicit refusal, and 696 (46.9%) never returned the questionnaire.
Of the initial 1600 potential respondents (1100 in the initial sample and 500 in the 2nd sample), 116 were considered as ineligible for the survey, either because they were not involved in patient care, had retired, or their survey package was returned by the post office due to an invalid address.
However, the mean prolactin level of the nuns and their nulliparous sisters was 35% higher than that of the parous women in the sample taken approximately 1 3/4 h after rising (p less than 0.0005), and 24% higher (P less then 0.01) in the 2nd sample taken 2 h later.
87.7% of the CD patients with at least four available samples already had a complication before sample procurement at first sample procurement, a proportion that increased to 90.8% (2nd sample), and 93.3% (3rd and 4th sample) during follow-up.
Contrarily, a significant decrease in the CD3% (P = 0.001) and a slight, but significant, decrease in the CD4% (P = 0.024) is recorded (1st versus 2nd sample); this decrease remains significant at the end of the championship (1st versus 3rd sample, CD3% P = 0.033 and CD4% P = 0.049).
Out of all patients with severe sepsis (131), for 105 (Table 5) the diagnostic was definitive, while 26 patients were not diagnosed etiologically: blood culture, negative for 17 (9 were not done); urinary antigen, negative for all; sputum culture, negative for 5 (21 not done); serologic test 2nd sample, negative for all, serologic test 1st sample, negative in 16 (10 not done).
