Because we hypothesized an independent effect on mortality from (a) any dual use of Medicare and the VHA, and from (b) each of the three types of dual use (inpatient only, outpatient only, or both), we included baseline socio-demographic, socio-economic, life style, disease history, functional limitations, and prior health services use covariates.
Mistletoe antibodies were determined in week 12. Safety and immunological parameters were checked again in a follow up visit 4 weeks after the last injection, The stepwise increase in dosage was performed because we hypothesized an increase of side effects and potential stimulation of the immune system with the dosage.
Because we hypothesized that a positive interaction between female and male factors resulted in the UI reaction, the indicated genotypes of SUI, sui, PUI, and pui corresponded to the phenotype of SUI (incompatible), non-SUI (compatible), PUI (incompatible), and non-PUI (compatible), respectively.
We specifically measured mating-induced changes in infected flies in addition to uninfected flies because we hypothesized that an ongoing infection may alter the female's capacity to initiate her reproductive program.
A metabolically versatile and pathogenic isolate from chronically infected CF lungs [38] was chosen as the model organism because we hypothesized that such a strain had demonstrated its capability to persist in human airways and thus the perturbation by single hit mutagenesis should unravel the possible next steps of dissociative behaviour during niche adaptation.
We hypothesized a P400 component because both these accounts involve STS activity, which the infant P400 has been argued to reflect.
We chose to assess exposure prior to diagnosis to mimic an intention-to-treat method [ 9] and because we hypothesized that ß-blockers exert an inhibitory effect early in ovarian cancer progression.
Our sample focused on ED patients because we hypothesized that this may represent a population that typically has more comorbidities (Institute of Medicine IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System [2007]), possibly increased risk of adverse driving outcomes, and perhaps different patterns of self-restricted driving compared to the general population.
We chose to contact four large categorical patient organisations because we hypothesized that to undertake actions a certain volume may be necessary and because these organisations may have more power in terms of money and personnel to influence reimbursement processes.
