When raw data sets were available, we used the statistical software Stata (version 12) to extract country-level estimates for electricity access, source of electricity, and reliability of electricity.
Mashed planet: Takes the Lonely Planet API, extracts country information, currency conversion from Yahoo, mashes them up and sticks the info on a web page.
For each identified study that met the selection criteria, the following data were extracted country, study design, population, intervention, comparator, perspective, model type, primary outcome, discount rate, time horizon, and price year on to an Excel spreadsheet.
To explore this possibility, we extracted country of origin data from the clinical notes of EAGLE BioVU [Farber-Eger Farber-Eger E Boston J, Bush WS, Crawford DC: ExtractinGoodloeR,-of-origin from electronic medical records for gene-environment studies as part of the Epidemiologic Architecture for Genes Linked to Environment (EAGLE) study, in preparation].
Our parsing strategy extracted country information from 92.1% of the affiliation strings in a random sample of PubMed records and in 97.0% of HuGE records, with accuracies of 94.0% and 91.0%, respectively.
For each study, the following key information was extracted: country of sample; sample size; mean age; study year; distribution of cases by histological type; type of cervical specimen (e.g., fresh/fixed biopsies or exfoliated cells) and PCR primers used to detect HPV positive samples; type-specific and overall prevalence of HPV infection.
The following data were extracted: country of study, demographics including age and gender, initial radiographic findings, time to MRI examination, type of fracture demonstrated by MRI, management of fracture, postoperative rehabilitation, follow-up period, outcomes following surgery, and other complications (displacement of fracture, nonunion, infection, neurological issues, or vascular injury).
An algorithm was developed to extract the countries of recruitment from the country of recruitment field for each registered record in the ICTRP data set.
"Our chief duty now is to extract the country from the crisis as quickly as possible so that hope will return," he added.
There is a lot that Senators Clinton and Obama need to be talking about in coming weeks, starting with how they will extract the country from President Bush's disastrous Iraq war.
