Parents/guardians of children in the trial and controls were encouraged to take their child to the health centre identified as being closest to their home ( all the health centres in the study area were within walking distance or could be easily reached by local transport) at any time that their child became unwell.
The present study included 1993 women who were tested in a clinical setting (that is, at a clinical genetic centre), identified as carrying a pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, and aged 18 or older.
In a well-defined cohort of predominantly white adult bariatric patients attending a regional obesity referral centre who were identified as highly motivated and suitable for a nurse-led structured lifestyle modification programme, the programme led to significant improvements in anthropometric, metabolic and cardiovascular risk variables over 10 weeks.
The hierarchical model confirmed that 3 centres identified by the classical approach as low outliers performed better than the mean.
Surgeon specialties were not known so specialist centres were identified as institutions with radiotherapy facilities.
Mental health resource centres were identified as suitable recruitment sites as Catty and Burns [ 17] reported that many clients of such services had used, and continued to use, inpatient services.
Furthermore, we did not have access to surgeon information or temporal surgeon specialty lists in the almost 100 treating institutions included in the study, so specialist cancer centres were identified as institutions with radiotherapy facilities.
RKIP in the tumour centre was identified as a strong prognostic indicator (HR (95% CI): 2.13 (1.27–3.56); P=0.0042) independently of TNM classification and therapy (P=0.0474).
Tumour centre was identified as the stromal area within the tumour mass between, and clearly separated from, the luminal border and the invasive front.
The pro-Hamas Palestinian Information Centre identified him as Abdel-Hamid Abu Srour from the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, and said he was a member of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas militant Islamist group.
