This recruitment method, combined with the comparability of sciatica prevalence estimates (above), means that this cohort is likely to be representative of primary care patients seeking care for low back and leg pain.
Judges rated each item on a four-point scale: one = not representative of quality care, two = needs major revisions to be representative of quality care, three = needs minor revisions to be representative of quality care, and four = representative of quality care [ 18].
Health care provided in academic centers may not be representative of the care provided to the general population.
First, the interviewed subjects were a randomly selected subset of a large population of patients receiving care in the Northeast, and are therefore likely to be representative of primary care patients generally.
This factor might have produced a particularly insightful picture of the nature of preferences for care at the end of life that may not be representative of primary care in the UK.
The sites were intended to be representative of usual care for schizophrenia and included community mental health centers, university health care systems, community and state hospitals, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services.
Although health care-seeking strategies in response to epilepsy may not be representative of health care seeking strategies more generally, they are likely to be similar to those in response to other chronic, incurable conditions where conventional biomedicine has limited efficacy.
In addition, the studies may only be representative of tertiary care centres.
In general, however, the comparator group was intended to be representative of NHS care provision (in qualifying ICUs) for acute respiratory failure during the period of the trial.
However, the two centres together serve a diverse range of patients from different socio-economic backgrounds which we believe to be representative of primary care patients.
