One approach to standardisation is to display the baseline and post-treatment scans on a scale based on the standardised uptake value (SUV).
28 For the UL-LOS we especially used the variable 'expected length of stay', which is generated by indirect standardisation based on the following three patient characteristics, which are the most important characteristics for standardisation of length of stay data 29: Age: divided into five categories: 0, 15 44 15–45 645–65+ 65+ years.
The standardisation was based on the use of state-of-the-art bright fluorochrome conjugates and the combination of the HSC marker CD34 with CD45 counterstaining.
Age and sex-adjusted CFR was calculated by direct standardisation based on the 2008 data.
First, the number of CHD deaths expected in 2006 was calculated by indirect age standardisation based on the assumption that 1996 mortality rates had persisted unchanged until 2006.
First, the number of CHD deaths expected in 2009 was calculated by indirect age standardisation based on the assumption that 1998 death rates had persisted unchanged until 2009.
The realisation that there are large variations of clinical performance, far beyond the variation attributable to patient factors, has led to the interest in standardisation based on the best available evidence [ 29], distributed as widely as possible [ 30].
We defined perineal dysfunctions as permanent when affecting women after the sixth month postpartum; urinary incontinence (UI) and definitions of other pelvic floor symptoms are based on the last International Continence Society standardisation publication [ 28].
The predominantly unidirectional and descriptive structure of ambulance service handover may lend itself more readily to standardisation based on the information-transfer model, even though it could be argued that these types of handovers should be less unidirectional with more read-back and active information seeking from the receiving party.
Product standardisation is based on the content of harpagoside, the principal compound found in the raw material.
