Patient demographics (age, gender and region) and baseline clinical characteristics (utilization and comorbid conditions assessed by Quan-Charlson comorbidity score [ 31]) were assessed.
The in-depth interview addresses topics such as: self-reported health status, functional limitations, household characteristics, utilization of health care services, insurance and working status, inter-generational transfers, and demographic characteristics.
A total of 344 government subsidized and 471 privately funded subjects were interviewed using a common questionnaire among informants from all the three data sources to acquire demographic and household characteristics, utilization and cost data.
Questionnaire surveys revealed building characteristics, household characteristics, the utilization of domestic appliances, and thermal environment in winter.
Health care spending is comparable but community-living and institutionalized individuals present characteristic service utilization patterns.
The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics and utilization of traditional Chinese medicine in patients with atopic dermatitis.
In conclusion, supplementation of MSP as a source of plant secondary compounds exhibited no negative effect on feed intake, nutrient digestibility, ruminal fermentation characteristics, nutrient utilization and microbial protein synthesis.
Baseline characteristics and utilization at first injection on study are summarized using descriptive statistics.
This experimental work demonstrated that P. rufuschaneyi has advantageous characteristics for utilization as a 'metal crop' including fast growth rate, easy re-growth after coppicing, tolerance for exposed conditions on eroded soils and high Ni accumulation in its whole biomass.
METHODS AND RESULTS:We compared patient and hospitalization characteristics, resource utilization, and associated outcomes, among modern era acute HF patients enrolled in the GWTG-HF (Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure) registry between 2011 and 2016, by varying severity of their acute HF.
These characteristics allow utilization of a larger part of the ocean environment.
