Therefore, despite the fact that a single evaluation of eGFR may overestimate the number of patients with CKD, we evaluated how often hospital physicians included CKD in patients' discharge diagnoses (by listing an ICD-9 code reflective of CKD), even for hospitalizations not directly related to kidney disease, when data regarding eGFR were available during the hospitalization.
To evaluate how often newly developed risk prediction models undergo external validation and how well they perform in such validations.
To evaluate how often low 5-min Apgar scores (AS5-min) at term are associated with asphyxia.
To evaluate how often general pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, and gastroenterologists diagnose children as overweight and how often interventions are provided, including nutritional counseling and screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and metabolic syndrome.
The aim of this study was to evaluate how often the European Medicines Agency EMAA) has authorized drugs based on nonrandomized studies and whether there is an association between treatment effects and EMA preference for further testing in randomized clinical trials (RCTs).
To evaluate how often reproducible research practices, which allow others to recreate the findings of studies, given the original data, are used in systematic reviews (SRs) of biomedical research.
"We want to see alternative modes of transportation — biking, non-auto modes —be more available and more accessible to people across the District," he said, noting that through the pilot program the city has tried to allow a new type of activity to come into the city and evaluate how often vehicles are being used, who is using them, what they might be replacing in terms of trips.
Here, students were asked to evaluate how often they approach digital technology in search of learning aids in an informal learning context.
We ran many simulations with distinct node populations to evaluate how often the network formation process results in oscillations in practice.
During the period between August and November 2008, we evaluated how often patients enquired about the results of their examinations before leaving the examination room.
