In as similar vein, the person-mode components cannot be compared to the LCM results because the former characterize persons in terms of symptom-component scores over time, whereas the latter characterizes persons based only on their symptom-score profiles.
The objective of the current study was to identify and characterize persons with low LDL-C using data from the Danish medical databases.
This staging schema, which derives from the Precaution Adoption Process Model, has been used to characterize persons eligible for CRCS according to their attitudinal proximity to action [ 85].
Specific objectives were to estimate the proportion undergoing syphilis testing at least annually; to characterize persons who were testing compared to those who were not; and to estimate the prevalence of past or current syphilis.
In order to identify and further characterize persons who did not participate, we explicitly asked family members or caregivers to respond in case that an eligible person was not able to participate due to cognitive impairment or severe illness and to consent to proxy telephone interviews.
We made novel use of insights from the capabilities approach to characterize person-centered care as care that recognizes and cultivates the capabilities associated with the concept of persons.
That is, neighborhood characteristics evaluated in this study may not well characterize individual persons living in those neighborhoods.
Despite this wealth of experiential evidence, the mechanisms underlying seasonality are poorly understood, especially diseases characterized by person-to-person transmission [ 1].
This period included several outbreaks of pneumonic plague characterized by person-to-person transmission; the last of these occurred in 1924 in Los Angeles.
The latter method has been applied to evaluation of environmental effects on cardiorespiratory disease occurrence (17, 18) and to the study of infectious diseases with environmental reservoirs (19– 21) but has not, to our knowledge, been applied previously to infectious diseases characterized by person-to-person transmission.
