Between 2001-02 and 2005-06, four key programs in Australia accounted for around 85% of government expenditure on programs delivering community aged care (excluding assessment services) [ 15].
Provided that other factors known to prolong QTc intervals had been minimized or excluded, assessment of QTc prolongation was based on Fridericia's corrected QTc evaluation (QTcF) at the end of each cohort.
Benefit assessments conducted from 1 January 2011 (the date of coming into effect of the new legislation) to 1 July 2014, excluding assessments of currently marketed pharmaceuticals, and the respective appraisals were retrieved from the G-BA website [8].
We repeated these analyses for admissions with a length of stay of at least one night or more, excluding assessments (also counted as 'admissions') sent home the same day.
bModified Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score excludes neurologic assessment.
A selection of trials in the moderately severe to severe patient population only excludes an assessment of memantine in moderate AD patients above the moderately severe threshold.
Authors recognise limitations include that a lack of documentation does not exclude an assessment, but believe it is a useful surrogate when evaluating patient care from charts.
Five of the secondary outcome variables were modeled with RMANCOVA-models (excluding veterinary assessment score).
These were excluded after assessment by a rheumatologist fluent in German in conjunction with one author.
Stained slides were inspected for uniformity of staining or assay failure and those not considered interpretable were excluded from assessment.
