The time measures of hours per day, days per week and weeks per year worked were used to calculate hours per week and hours per year worked, and were used along with visits per week and services per week to calculate visits per year and both services per visit and services per year.
For each participant and each follow-up visit we calculated expected visit date, date visit window opened, date visit window closed, logged whether the visit was completed, visit completion date, and made notes about the participant's status with the study and our attempts at contact.
We measured blood pressure at every visit during 1 year and calculated the visit-to-visit variability in blood pressure.
First, differences in MFI value for each autoantibody were calculated as visit 2 minus visit 1 values.
Δ body weight as well as Δ lipid were calculated as visit 9 values minus visit 5 values.
In this scenario, we calculated the visit costs if this routine was changed to every fifth visit (or earlier when necessary).
Change in all MRI structures and leg strength was calculated as: Visit-3 score – Visit-2 score.
We calculated the visit corrected HCC index by ordinary least squares regression analysis in which the dependent variable was the individual level risk score; the independent variable was physician visit at the regional level.
To provide some estimate of clinical importance, we therefore dichotomized each day as either rain or no rain and calculated average visits (and percent change in visits) predicted from the model after a lag of 4 days (Table 3).
The duration of follow-up for the tth visit, calculated from the initial visit, is denoted by T it, where T i 1 = 0.
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