All subjects were contacted for a follow-up evaluation, and of the initial group of patients, 42 (57.5%) participated in the re-evaluation, 3.8 ± 0.9 years (mean ± SD) after baseline.
Because Flipboard is most interested in the future of publishing and content distribution, the initial group of projects selected focus specifically on that subject matter.
To determine if the sex specific presence of AEP was an anomaly and limited to the initial group evaluated, blue crabs were surveyed in six different years using both commercial and scientific suppliers.
For the second and subsequent waves, the initial group of responding doctors will be surveyed in addition to a 'top-up' sample that will include all new doctors in the sample frame since the first wave.
This means that the intervention had an independent and stronger effect than the initial group differences on the outcome variable.
To determine which Bacteroidete species differed in abundance, we selected samples from 10 subjects (4 non-obese and 6 obese) from the initial group of 55 for next-generation sequencing (Table 3).
Companies assigned to a loss control consultant for two or more years (the "outcome group") had an average claim rate of 1.24 per $10,000 premium, compared with a rate of 1.62 in the "initial group" and a rate of 1.60 in the "comparison group".
The number of nodes in the decision tree depends on the complexity of the initial group and the successive subgroups.
In a later study [ 23], the HeartMate II investigators evaluated a cohort of 281 patients with similar inclusion criteria and compared these patients to the initial group.
The reason for the heterogeneity between the results from the Polish and UK centres is unclear; one possible explanation is a random variation and false positive result in the initial group.
Three patients were planned per cohort, with up to 3 added if dose limiting toxicity (DLT) was observed in the initial group, and an expanded cohort at the maximum tolerated dose (MTD).
