Approximately half had contact with a nurse in primary care, the majority in combination with a general practitioner or hospital doctor.
In MESE, approximately half of the contacts from the Padrón list resulted in non-contact, compared to 43-47% in ICS (for Barcelona and Madrid, respectively), 45% in ISSP 2012 and 57% in ISSP 2014.
Approximately half of infectious contacts of either children or teenagers are within the same age class (19%, SD 0.8%and9%9%, SD 0.7%, respectively).
The pubio-ischial contact represents approximately half of the total pubic length, forming a large apron, which is shallowly S-shaped.
This study design, however, resulted in the problem of losing contact with approximately half of the subjects who discontinued participation.
Participants assigned to the low need category had approximately half the rate of service contacts compared with the whole sample reported in Table 2 (professional: 8.5% vs. 17.3%; non-professional: 5.7% vs. 11.6%).
Nucleosomal DNA is relatively inaccessible to DNA binding proteins due to both the occlusion of approximately half of its surface by contacts with histones, as well as the distortion of the normal B-form structure that occurs when DNA is wrapped around a histone octamer [ 1].
Approximately half of the help seekers achieved contact with the GP, and fewer reached a psychologist/psychiatrist.
Two adverse experiences (acne and contact dermatitis [with approximately half of the events being "poison ivy/oak"]) were reported more frequently in the sitagliptin group compared with the non-exposed group, whereas hyperkeratosis was reported more frequently in the non-exposed group (Table 5).
Approximately half of the subjects changed housing and contact details without notifying the investigators (lost to contact).
In total we contacted 65 practices - approximately half of all the practices in the network - and 13 agreed to participate.
