Margins come down, things get standardised and commoditised.
A Cochrane review on music therapy for ASD found effect sizes (standardised mean differences) of d = 0.50 and 0.36 for gestural and verbal communicative skills, respectively [ 7].
Similarly, a national survey in the US, found that, after standardising for other personal characteristics, patients with UI had clinically and significantly poorer SF-36 scores across all domains compared to patients without UI [ 9].
A study conducted in Australia found that smokers using standardised plain brown packets were 81% more likely to consider quitting.
Two studies compared tricyclics (amitriptyline 25 mg, clomipramine 150 mg) with tetracyclics and found no difference (average standardised mean difference −0.21, −0.65 to 0.22, I=32.8%).
In that year, the highest incidence in the world were found in Yamagata, Japan, age standardised incidence rate (ASR) 95.5 and 40.1 per 100 000 in males and females, respectively.
A greater than expected number of subsequent cancers was found for two sites: breast (standardised incidence ratio (SIR) 1.96; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.79 2.14) and corpus uteri (SIR 1.42; 95% CI 1.11 1.78).
Associations with insulin (Fig. 1b) and C-peptide (data not shown) mirrored these observations, with the only time point during the OGTT at which significant differences were found being at 30 min (standardised beta [95% CI] −0.15 [−0.061]−0.061], p = 8.0 × 10−4 for insulin; −0.089 [−0.0044]0.0044], p = 0.039 for C-peptide).
An email survey found there were 61 different neonatal standardised PN formulations compounded and supplied by one pharmaceutical company in October 2009 [ 1].
We found little evidence to suggest that age standardised mortality ratios differed between men and women.
