Finally, comorbidities can impact on patient quality of life; although the baseline data suggests that the subgroups were reasonably well balanced regarding comorbidities.
Baseline data suggest that the initial conditions are favourable for testing programme efficacy, since distribution of baseline levels of the outcomes does not differ in the intervention and control groups.
This is important because baseline data suggest that providers were not following PMTCT guidelines, which call for reinforcing counseling on HIV/AIDS throughout pregnancy and, if women are HIV-negative, repeating an HIV test every three months.
Inspection of the baseline data suggests that there may have been some differences between the groups; the control group had a higher proportion of males, a lower acute LOS, a lower EMS and there were differences in admission diagnosis.
Baseline data suggest that the initial conditions are favourable for testing programme efficacy since distribution of baseline levels of the outcomes did not differ in the intervention and control groups, except for negligible differences between self-efficacy and empathy, which were higher in the control group, and class climate, which was higher in the intervention group.
In contrast to randomized trials, the composition of the therapy cohorts in this study is diverse: the baseline data suggest that the regimens chosen are the result of differential considerations of the treating psychiatrists according to their patients' history and needs [ 22].
Nevertheless, as these baseline data suggest, the balance of opinion in Crimea is delicate, and there is much to play for in the coming weeks and months.
Our data suggested that the baseline BPND values acquired in Janvier Wistar rats were significantly higher compared to the BPND values acquired in Haran Wistar rats (p = 0.001; Additional file 2).
Our baseline (enrollment) data suggest that by using remote communication tools it is feasible to recruit often hard-to-reach individuals, including: rural and remote residents; elderly subjects; the unemployed; and those with multiple comorbidities [ 59].
The use of the propensity matching method (versus a standard case match based on a small subset of variables) was one attempt to control for this possibility, and, although the baseline group data suggest that the groups were indeed similar on the compared characteristics, the potential for bias cannot be completely eliminated.
