Our earlier hospital based study estimated the sensitivity and specificity of foot length <8 cm to predict low birth weight (<2500 g) to be 0.87 and 0.60 respectively [ 12].
A review of population based studies estimated that a mean proportion of 9.7% of adolescents report a life-time suicide attempt [ 1].
Molecular data based studies estimates suggest a ~115 My split for primates-rodents divergence [ 20] and a ~130 My split for paleo-neognathae birds [ 21, 22].
Population-based studies estimating the prevalence rates of verrucae have produced varying results, ranging from 0.84% (USA), 2 to 3.3% (UK), 3 and up to 12.9% (Russia).
Our results are generally consistent with other model-based studies estimating the cost-effectiveness of Option B+ in Nigeria, Malawi, and Zimbabwe [ 8, 9, 11].
Here we report on a community based study to estimate the reliability of a simple foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in the first days of life.
The study was a hospital based cost accounting cross sectional study estimating the average cost of spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) and Caesarean section (CS) from the provider (hospital) perspective and the user (patient) perspective.
A large Norwegian population based study, the Hordaland Health Study, estimated the point prevalence percentage of pSS in individuals aged 40 44 years at 0.44 (95% CI 0.34 0.57) using the European criteria, and 0.22 (95% CI 0.15 0.32) using the revised criteria.
The two surveillance based studies reported estimates of 0.005% and 0.003% (Table 2).
Population based studies are needed to estimate the unmet burden of elective surgical disease.
On the other hand, population based studies have reported the cure fraction estimates for breast [ 5, 12, 19] and colorectal cancer [ 13, 20].
