Micro-costing, using patient records for treatments received and labour costs for staff, and step-down hospital costing were used to calculate departmental expenditure and to estimate the proportion of their services dedicated to pediatric care [38].
The variance component method is used both for localization of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and to estimate the proportion of phenotypic variance that can be explained by a specific QTL in the population.
Our study was designed to examine physicians' activity in using email and to estimate the proportion of email messages missing from documentation in electronic patient records (EPR).
The purpose was to examine the association between LC and pleural cancer mortality (the latter as a proxy of asbestos exposure), and to estimate the proportion of LC deaths attributable to asbestos exposure in the past.
This study was informed by both the international literature and a series of key informant interviews [ 30] to canvas the range of treatment options offered in New Zealand and to estimate the proportion of people with insomnia who seek treatment.
43,417 SNPs were employed to perform a genome-wide association analysis and to estimate the proportion of genetic variance attributable to the SNPs on each chromosome using restricted maximum likelihood (REML).
