The acquired dataset included the patients' demographic information, reason for admission, department of origin, infection site, blood culture results and laboratory characteristics.
Another consideration is the use of the first author's affiliation to assign the country and department of origin.
The study setting is important to consider, as the PPV depends on the prevalence of disease and therefore on the data's department of origin.
Cases and controls were matched on age (within one year), race (non-Hispanic white, Hispanic, Black, Asian), calendar year of diagnosis (exact year), Kaiser Permanente pathology department of origin, and treatment of index breast cancer with tamoxifen (yes, no).
The positive predictive values for many diagnoses identified in the DNPR are generally high, but vary depending on the gold standard against which they are compared and by the prevalence of disease and therefore department of origin.
Controls were individually matched to their case with respect to age (within 1 year), race (non-Hispanic white, Hispanic, Black, Asian), calendar year of diagnosis (exact year), Kaiser Permanente pathology department of origin, and treatment of index breast cancer with tamoxifen (yes, no).
This possibility could nevertheless not be retained due to the diverse nature of the participants' departments of origin.
He was blinded with regard to the pain diagnosis and the department's origin of the patients.
Only those who have been prescreened by state department officials in their countries of origin will be eligible for travel to Costa Rica.
Anxious not to offend India, Nepal's industry department declined to approve the certificates of origin Kodak needed to export to India.
Demographic and basic clinical information were collected from patients with carbapenem-resistant bacteria: age, gender, date of admission, clinical department, clinical diagnosis, origin of collected sample, isolated bacterial strains and date of sample collection.
