Unfortunately, some patients were lost to follow up beyond the first year, and thus, our analysis was based on complete follow-up data for all patients for only the first year.> Patients were followed for 12 48 months with an average follow-up period of 29 months.
We used descriptive statistics based on complete data to characterize the patients in our sample, the patterns of glucose testing and rates of follow-up.
One of the limitations is that our analysis was based on complete data provided by only 19 in-patient hospital care units, although these units did account for over 13,000 patients.
Results are based on complete cases only.
All analyses based on complete data.
We report primary results based on complete-case analysis (456 patients) and provide results from the supplementary multiple and single imputation analysis for reference (supplementary methods, available in an online appendix at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/dc10-0456/DC1).
Analyses are conducted based on: (i) complete patient-level data; (ii) aggregated data; (iii) a hypothetical case control study; (iv) a hypothetical two-phase study stratified on clinic type; and, (v) a hypothetical two-phase study stratified on clinic type and registration year.
cTime from the stopping of sedation until extubation: exposure calculation was based on patients completing treatment (including 37 patients in group M, 35 patients in group P, and 32 patients in group M-P), patients withdrawing treatment and suffering therapeutic failure, and those who underwent tracheostomy without determining the extubation.
Classification of injury type was based on review of complete patient medical records, including history, physical exam, definitive diagnoses, radiologic studies, intra-operative examination, and pathological examination.
Some 48% of patients with angina had undergone exercise ECG testing; 21% coronary angiography; and 19% revascularisation (9% PCI; 12% CABG) Adjusted odds ratios based on 1,161 complete cases (one patient lacked date of diagnosis for angina); 95%CI, 95% confidence interval; BP, blood pressure; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting.
