The practices in the study were selected to be representative of the mortality (SMR) and Jarman scores of general practices in Britain Englandd, Wales and Scotland).
In brief, 106 general practices from the MRC General Practice Research Framework, selected to be representative of the UK distribution of mortality and deprivation (Jarman scores), were randomized to a Universal or Targeted health assessment, with further randomization to management by a primary care team or a hospital-based geriatric team.
These are unlikely to be representative of the diversity in risk and mortality present across LMICs.
Secondly, data on outpatient and inpatient proportional morbidity and mortality may not be representative of population patterns, due to differences in health care utilisation by type of illness.
This small patient group appears to be representative of the oesophagogastric surgical population within our institution (mortality 10.2% vs 9%).
If the observed mortality is representative of Bd-induced mortality in the field, such high levels of mortality may lead to population declines [38], [39].
In all age groups, GGT mortality rates were representative of those of inner and outer regional areas (crude mortality rates for 35 74 years: inner and outer regional vs GGT 92 vs 98, p=0.341).
With regard to patient number, we believe that our data (17% mortality rate) are representative of the type of outcomes seen in patients presenting with blunt trauma (e.g. the stud of Sperry et al. [49], in which only 5% mortality is reported in trauma patients).
Consequently, mortality data are representative of the entire UK population, are published annually and are considered high-quality data.
For the purposes of this study, the West Midlands is representative of the national picture, having similar mortality rates in people aged ≥75 compared with the national picture (death rates in people aged 75-84 and in people aged ≥85 are 56.6 per 1000 and 152.7 per 1000, respectively, in England and Wales compared with 58.5 per 1000 and 157.6 per 1000 in the West Midlands).
