Erethism, frequently described as resulting from chronic exposure to metallic mercury vapors [ 36, 37, 39, 41– 43] (Additional file 1; File S5; row 70), was not included in the profiles because it overlaps with other symptoms and its description changed over time [ 43].
"People change over time.
Appendices 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 provide the full list, description, and changes over time of the components for selected composite indicators.
All these limitations are counterbalanced by the fact that this national survey provides both a detailed description of disabilities over time for the entire knee arthroplasty population, which consequently reflects functional status, and a comparison of activity limitations for people with recent knee arthroplasty and those with recent hip arthroplasty.
This severely hinders the performance of meta-analyses across studies and the description of trends over time.
LTA combines the cross-sectional measurement of health state profiles and the description of transition over time from one health profile to another [ 34].
Because manually recorded end-hour values correlate well with digital recordings, investigators could use these data to obtain a reliable description of ICP over time.
However, on the one hand, 3-D digitizing does not allow the description of trees over time and the number of described trees remains low because it relies on difficulat and time-consuming field measurements.
This paper reports on and draws lessons from the practical use of a description-driven system over time.
The event-stream method allows a richer description of patient care over time, more consistent with how patients receive services in routine care.
