These non-consulting GP patients were highly representative of the general population, given the extremely high GP registration percentage.
"They have been extremely effective," Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee, Democrat of Texas, said of the Teamsters' lobbying effort.
"Two lovely ambulance guys" were waiting on the runway at Heathrow, as were "extremely helpful" representatives of the Metropolitan police's family liaison service, who had brought Will's brother, Ben.
"He is an extremely good trade representative.
And he has sent an extremely moderate PT representative to observe the Quito meeting.
"This is extremely painful," said Representative Carol Shea-Porter, a New Hampshire Democrat elected last fall, in part, because of her opposition to the war.
"Here we've got a bill that's over a thousand pages, some of them extremely technical," said Representative Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona.
"He has handled this crisis extremely well," said Representative Barney Frank, the acerbic Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and customarily a scathing critic of the Bush administration.
Resulting test statistics for β-values vs. M-values were extremely similar; a representative example is shown in Additional file 4. To visually evaluate the similarities and differences between cohorts, a hierarchical clustering analysis was performed on the t-statistics from the meQTL association tests.
Study strengths include: an internationally established coding rule for patient-level risk adjustment; a linked administrative data approach which captures any person with documented dementia in a hospital episode over a 2-year period; an extremely large and representative sample, and a broad age range including patients aged 50 and above.
