We made additional exclusions (<5%) for this analysis to eliminate birth-month biases related to the dependence on registrations in the SEARCH study made only within strictly defined calendar years (details and examples are provided in supplementary item I, available in an online appendix at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/dc09-0891/DC1).
All eligible patients had uninterrupted Medicare (A+B) coverage for at least 2 years before ESRD.Time, defined as calendar year of incident ESRD.Use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA), intravenous iron supplements, and blood transfusions in the 2 years prior to ESRD; hemoglobin concentration at the time of ESRD.
Medication gaps were defined as "calendar years without any prescription for an ICS".
However, months in a Gregorian calendar year are defined by seasons and so winter in the Northern hemisphere will never occur during June.
The prevalence of CKD in the health system for a calendar year was defined as percentage of patients with a mean eGFR <60 ml/min/1.73 m with corresponding 95% Confidence Intervals (CI).
To determine the proportion of AIDS patients who were diagnosed with tuberculosis within one year following their AIDS diagnosis, annual cohorts of patients diagnosed with AIDS in a calendar year were defined as denominators with tuberculosis diagnosed within up to one year since AIDS diagnosis among this population as numerators.
As proposed, the period will be defined as one calendar year, beginning Fall and running through Summer.
Year was defined as the calendar year of birth, 1990 to 2002, inclusive.
You haven't touched a guitar in a calendar year.
'Current retention' in care is defined as the retention rate in a specific ' calendar' year among patients who were on ART sometime during the "calendar".
Exemption from co-payments is available when individuals hit a certain 'safety net' threshold, which is a defined level of expenditure per calendar year (in 2014, the PBS threshold is $1421 per year for general beneficiaries and $360 per year low income concession card holders; for MBS it is $1248 and $624 respectively per year).
