However, suboptimal treatment of Legionella patients with co-infections likely contributed to a case-fatality ratio (20%) more than twice that for all SRI patients (8%) (4, 11 ).
The advances in diagnostic accuracy, medication and specialised workforce has contributed to a lower case fatality and lengthen survival rates however this is not evident in the Indigenous Australian population.
Given Stake's position that the researcher must be "ever-reflective" (p 927) to find meanings in the data, his creative approach may have contributed to a perception that case study design is somewhat 'elusive' [ 8], as authors in nursing journals, in particular, fail to define their interpretations or offer a rationale for the approach taken [ 9].
It contributed to a minority of cases, approximately 10%to20%0% but associated with 80%to90%0% of visual loss. 1 It is clear that no single therapy addresses the multifactorial pathogenesis of the disease.
Assuming that the no further linkage of cases was possible, the private laboratory reports contributed to a maximum of 44 cases (equivalent to nine cases/year) in addition to the MRU-confirmed cases over the 5-year period (30 HESonly, 10 unlinked, 4 HES+/MRU-).
While excluding patients having second-line treatment from RFS and DSS analysis had marginal effect on the results (data not shown), patients in need for second-line treatment are in general, expected to have a particular poor prognosis; thus, the possibility exist that these patients may have contributed to a different outcome in case they had not receive salvage therapy.
The ASA published its annual report on 30 May, which said that in the first 10 months of the remit extension, they had handled 7,195 online remit complaints about 6,631 advertisements which contributed to a 71% increase in cases overall.
Successful pre-positioning of cloth filters in Warrap State led to 99% coverage of endemic villages and contributed to a 43% decrease in cases (Warrap reported 1,193 and 675 cases in 2009 and 2010, respectively).
