The users were requested to state how strongly they agree or disagree to the possible reason on a scale of 1 5.
Stimuli were 500 ms long and the inter-stimulus-interval was 2500 ms. For each consonant, volunteers were requested to state whether or not it was identical to the consonant presented 2 stimuli earlier, by pressing a button on a MR compatible keypad for "yes", and another one for "no".
To achieve this, participants were requested to state the required pre-conditions, interventions, assumptions and indicators.
Finally, patients were requested to state the survival threshold in months necessary for them to repeat therapy.
The rheumatologists were requested to state the primary reasons why they assumed that the arthralgia patients had an increased risk for RA development.
Subjects who were receiving treatment for any illness were requested to state the names of the diseases in a questionnaire at the health checkup.
Finally, all women were requested to state how likely it was that a pregnancy within the following 6 months would be planned, with four response alternatives ranging from 'very likely' to 'totally unlikely'.
The women were requested to state the date, their age, level of university education, own and parents' country of birth, sexual orientation and if they currently were in a stable relationship or not.
Therefore, the physicians were requested to state whether they suspected HIV infection on clinical grounds and to classify each patient as either having evidence of 'clinical HIV disease' or 'no clinical HIV disease' without regard to the HIV serological status of the patient.
Consent will also be requested to access patient information from relevant State agencies which will contain information on all hospital separations in each State, and the related information on the costs associated with each hospital separation.
