For each domain and in each data source, we first calculated utilization rates stratified by 5-year age and sex groups and then calculated standardized rates using the sex and age distribution in Bavaria 2009 as a reference population.
Third, drug utilization rates may be difficult to compare because of different package sizes.
First, prevalence, incidence, and surgical utilization rates for the management of chronic knee pain are high and variable.
In order to identify a potential learning effect for the nursing staff, we compared the service utilization rates of the first eleven case conferences (December 2011-July 2012) with the second twelve case conferences (August 2012-November 2012), and there were no statistically significant differences between these groups.
Affected residents of female and male gender and in five age groups all showed increases in utilization rates in the first post-disaster year and in psychological problems when compared to their pre-disaster baseline levels.
This study also found brain cancer decedents had the second highest RT utilization rate (36.9%) in the last year of life following after lung cancer; however, only 17.6% of decedents received RT deemed palliative by our definition.
Blood culture utilization was heavily weighted to the start of the hospital stay; blood culture utilization rates were highest on the first hospital day (4.5 cultures per 100 patient-days) while utilization was subsequently significantly lower (an average of 0.68 cultures per 100 patient-days [range 0.55-0.79]).
It has been estimated that new access volumes created by TRQs typically accounted for less than 2percent of world trade for the commodities in question, and TRQ utilization rates or fill rates have averaged only about two-thirds.
Second, the present report was intended to allow comparison of Nova Scotia drug utilization rates with those published elsewhere, especially from other jurisdictions in Canada, where overall or population-wide and not "ideal", rates were reported.
When the increases in the utilization rates for female and male affected residents were tested in the first two years, a significant difference (P <.01) was found in the second year alone, which means that the increase in utilization rate remained significantly higher in female affected residents.
