Modification of the effect of smoking was assessed by inclusion of interaction terms of smoking category indicators with indicator variables for age, sex, BMI, and alcohol drinking.
Briefly, the control model is log-linear in 14 indicator variables for 5 year age-at-exposure categories, an indicator for gender, and the numerical variable log mean attained age, each of which is well-defined for the data cells.
A six-category urban/rural indicator for wards was obtained from the 1981 census, classifying each ward as: wholly urban, predominantly urban, mixed urban, mixed rural, predominantly rural or wholly rural.
To facilitate analysis, indicators were classified into three categories: Indicators eligible for scoring at each healthcare encounter (eg, an exacerbation of asthma) by any provider (denominator is all eligible encounters).
The metal homeostasis category contained many genes involved in metal transport or metal regulation assembled from studies reporting mainly their up-regulation in response to - Fe. From the observation that this category was found induced in wild type - vs. + Fe in roots and in leaves we can deduce that indeed the metal homeostasis category was an indicator for Fe deficiency responses.
A set of 36 indicators (potentially influencing) the OW of HCs have been chosen for this analysis and were divided into four categories: 8 indicators for policy and management, 4 indicators for financing, 11 indicators for continuum of care, and 13 indicators for quality of care.
We used the medical diagnostic category "bacterial/viral pneumonia" (diagnosis category 15) as an indicator for nursing care requirements of ILI patients, as this closely matches the medical condition typical for influenza patients.
Intervention group was included as a between-subject factor using TPC, TMI (indicating treatment type), and TPC × TMI as predictors, and time of measurements as a within-subject factor using dummy coding with baseline as reference category and a dummy indicator for each time point.
* Patients with stroke are used as the reference category for indicators of complication: coefficients represent difference in log PD costs for each type of complication relative to stroke.
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