It would have been ideal to have a fair distribution of respondents for the various regions of the continents since the majority of respondents from Africa were from Southern Africa which is not representative of the whole African population.
Overall, COMPAR was rated as "fair" by all respondents.
These two Teaching Hospitals were chosen to allow a fair representation of respondents from both southern and northern parts of Ghana, for better generalization of results.
The self-rated health status was reported as good/very good by 62.5% of the respondents, fair by 30%, and poor/very poor by 7%.
Health status was assessed with the question "would you say your health in general is... excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?" Respondents were asked if they used any prescription medications in past month.
Epidural infusion of a local anesthetic with or without an opioid was commonly employed for postoperative analgesia, although a fair number of respondents used routinely only paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids.
In a recent "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll, 61 percent of respondents said that the first step toward balancing the budget should be increasing taxes on the wealthy.
In addressing the objectives of the study, the authors sought to first ensure that the respondents had fair knowledge and understanding of the concept of CSR.
Although the number of respondents was fair (between 37 and 39 depending on the data element), certain data elements had to be added or redefined based on an internal review by some of our lab members, which might have created some bias towards the needs of our lab rather than a general consensus in the community.
In the youngest age group, CPS and NHIS show the lowest fractions of respondents reporting fair or poor health.
This classification showed that 94% of dietitians exhibited good to very good KNOA, while 55% of non-dietitian respondents exhibited fair or insufficient KNOA (Table 5).
