To this aim, a novel widespread questionnaire was elaborated and submitted to more than 300 individuals with varying their educational background and personal characteristics, seasonal period, submission mode, temporal closeness to heat wave emergency.
Data were abstracted for variables under four distinct categories of inquiry: submission specifics, drug characteristics, clinical evidence, and economic evidence.
We considered demographic and nosological characteristics and if PSH was main cause of submission.
Data from all new projects in 2002 and 2007 were collected from REC files and the characteristics of clinical projects (76% of all submissions) were analyzed.
Most of them come from Floyd Duffner (Mr. Cale), who describes aging as the time when undesirable characteristics "can start bullyin' your more attractive features into submission".
In each patient, we considered demographic and nosological characteristics and if PSH was the main cause of submission to our office.
Table 1 summarizes information about which task(s) each participant addressed as well as the characteristics of the enhancement and recognition system(s) proposed in each submission.
Adhering to the standard submission protocol for data entry, this information should appear in the 'Characteristics column' of ArrayExpress and GEO.
This corpus of data and metadata allows us to analyze characteristics of data from the LTER program, including temporal coverage, data format, rate of submission, volume of data, and ecological characteristics of the data (e.g., ecosystems, processes, organisms).
Inclusion criteria did not specify particular clinical characteristics because interviews were intended to yield utilities that may be used in cost-utility analyses for submission to reimbursement authorities, most of whom prefer utilities that represent general population values [ 53– 53].
