Data from patient medical charts and pharmacy records including demographic and clinical characteristics, dates of ART initiation and health facility visits, and patient outcomes were abstracted by trained study personnel using a structured tool.
Since 1995, all Hospital Authority inpatient data, including demographic characteristics, dates of admission and discharge, diagnoses and procedures on discharge using the International Classification of Diseases, 9th, Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), have been stored in a central-computerized database.
Regards to biofuel characteristics, date stone have the highest energy density (11.4 GJ/m3) and the lowest ash content (close to 1.2%).
Examined data included patient demographics, primary tumor characteristics, date and type of operation, and status at last follow-up.
6. Patient characteristics: date of birth, gender, socio-economic status and smoking (current smoking and never/previous smoking).
Pregnancy and birth characteristics: Date of birth, birth weight, gestational age and gender were obtained from midwife and hospital registries.
A questionnaire was used to determine patient characteristics (age, gender, marital status, education), tumor characteristics (date of diagnosis, histology) and type of treatment.
Participants' characteristics, date of birth, sex, residential areas, parents' education, and households' assets, expenditure, and income were extracted from FilaBavi's re-census survey 2007.
Data were extracted from FilaBavi's re-census survey 2007 on the participants' characteristics, date of birth, sex, residential areas, parents' education and households' assets, expenditure and income.
Additionally, 83 patients were excluded because of missing values for one of the crucial variables (patient characteristics, date of surgery, type of prosthesis, or outcome).
Supplementary data collected by chart review included demographic characteristics, date of hospitalisation, co-morbidities (diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, immunosuppression and renal insufficiency).
