The gathered data comprised the date of prescription, daily dosage, and the number of days of drug supply.
Clinical and molecular information comprised the date of birth, year of sampling and study, cellular origin of DNA, sex, number and methylation status of CGG repeats, CGG repeats of the carrier mother/father, mental status, facial dysmorphic features, presence of macroorchidism (in males), and diagnoses of FXPOI or FXTAS.
The data extracted for this study comprised the date of first hip fracture during the study period (hereafter referred to as primary hip fracture), or the date of surgery in case of missing information, for the period from 1 January 2005 until 31 December 2010.
Data were obtained from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) comprising the date of diagnosis for every recorded case of monocytic leukaemia in England and Wales during the period 1974 1998, amounting to 2311 cases.
Screening histories, comprising the dates and results of all smears taken before the date of diagnosis of the patient's cancer, were determined from the FHSA computer and laboratory records.
Timeline events comprised the following dates: symptom onset (onset of diarrhea), diagnosis, notification (date when the notification arrived at the local health department), and reporting (date when the report arrived at RKI).
The final merged database comprised the following covariates: date of birth, race, date of AIDS diagnosis, dates of initiation of HAART, CD4 counts and viral load at diagnosis, cause(s) and date of death.
First, we assigned average weekly exposures beginning on the estimated LMP date, such that week 1 comprised the estimated LMP date and the following 6 days.
For the purposes of this analysis, an event was defined as endoscopy-confirmed peptic ulcer; time-to-event comprised the time between the date of initial administration and the date of event occurrence.
Injury data were acquired from the British Columbia Trauma Registry comprising the location, date, time and cause of every injury that was treated in a trauma centre in the Metro Vancouver area between 2001 and 2008, inclusive.
Extracted information comprised the institution issuing the guideline, date of issue, disease, recommendations relating to TCM, evidence level of the recommended content and references supporting the recommendations.
