For both ILI and laboratory-confirmed influenza cases, the following information was included: date of consultation, age, status regarding pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccination, and a logical indicating whether the time from vaccination to consultation was ≤3 or >3 weeks.
At the patients' first consultation, performance status (PS) was scored using the WHO classification and patients were divided into four groups: PS 0, 1, 2 and 3 4.
At the time of the consultation, serologic status for CHIKV antibodies was reevaluated using IgM-capture and an IgG-capture enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay with inactivated cell-culture-ground chikungunya virus and mouse anti-chikungunya hyperimmune ascitic fluid (Institut Pasteur, Lyon, France).
(The one exception being changes to tax rates which, unsurprisingly given its prior U-turn, is confirmed as entirely off the table. "The employment status consultation makes very clear that changes to the rates of tax or NICs for either employees or the self-employed are not in scope," it emphasizes on that).
17 19 Recent studies have reported links between preinjury and postinjury self-reported healthcare consultation and health status.
The model was also fitted to the subsample of patients with usable diary data to check the effect of duration of illness before consultation and smoking status on prescribing.
CI = confidence interval; ICS = inhaled corticosteroid; OR = odds ratio *Adjusted for baseline confounding factors, including short-acting β-agonist use, asthma consultation rate, socioeconomic status, and prescribed ICS dose at the index date (time of ICS device switch).
Descriptive statistics were used to characterise the patient population including age (from year of birth to year of antenatal consultation), patient payment status (GMS, DVC or PRV) and prevalence of miscarriage.
Considerable variation in antibiotic prescribing for acute cough remains throughout Europe even after adjustment for illness severity, comorbidity, temperature, age, duration of illness before to consultation, and smoking status Recovery is not meaningfully influenced by variation in antibiotic prescribing Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2009.
