However, a more important use would be as population measures to characterize the overall success of treatment programs or health facilities in maintaining patients on therapy.
99 Another study revealed contradicting data (keloid recurrence in 8 out of 10 patients treated with imiquimod 5%). 100 Thus additional studies may be necessary to further characterize the ultimate success rates and the side effect profile (eg, persisting inflammation, erosion, depigmentation) of this rather expensive approach for the reduction of recurrence rates after surgery of keloids.
In addition to serving as a final data quality check, these analyses are used to characterize the study population, assess the success of randomization in balancing the two groups, and determine the impact of any dropouts on that balance with respect to potentially important prognostic factors (e.g., age, education level of Veteran, MMSE score).
Others characterize the surge as a success, helping to end a war that was a mistake to begin with.
The authors study the California software industry to characterize the major barriers to success for these ventures.
A review of appropriate literature largely assessments of already-built light rail lines in other US cities is used to characterize the predicted ridership as a success or failure.
The success of maternal immunization in preventing young infant morbidity and mortality is best characterized by the success of tetanus immunization program and inactivated influenza vaccine studies during pregnancy [8], [9].
Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the studies included, their degree of success, and the number of features reported.
Philosophic interest in the Principia during the 19th Century therefore came to focus on how Newton had achieved this success, in part to characterize the knowledge that had been achieved and in part to pursue comparable knowledge in other areas of research.
The questions to the experts are formed by considering that success is dependent on more than 100 factors that characterize the problem.
