The frequency of needed leap seconds will increase as the rotation of the Earth continues to slow.
The hypothesis in the present study is that willingness to accept a preventive treatment of heart disease is influenced by cost, experience with heart disease, age, educational attainment, frequency of needed control visits to the GP, and the presence of potential side effects from the treatment.
Literacy was assessed using three items: language spoken at home, confidence in filling out forms, and frequency of needing help to read printed materials.
However, no statistically significant difference was seen in mean bodyweight, TSH levels, length of hospital stay and frequency of need to initiate phototherapy or blood exchange.
One question (and data item) relates to people's 'support needs', based on the ICF Activities and Participation domains and also on the Australian disability population survey question on frequency of need for support.
For each of 9 life domains based on the ICF Activities and Participation domains, there are (essentially) three simple categories for the frequency of need for support: needs no help/supervision – with or without aids; sometimes needs help/supervision; always needs help/supervision.
There was also no difference between the probiotic and placebo groups for any of the other secondary outcomes (i.e., incidence of rotavirus infection, incidence of diarrhea, duration of diarrhea, incidence of recurrent diarrhea, incidence of chronic diarrhea, length of hospital stay in days, and frequency of need for rehydration).
Third, glucose trends in critically ill patients and subgroups need to be more clearly characterized, so that better definitions of the rate of change can be developed and, thereby, the frequency of sampling needed to describe clinically relevant trends.
In order to avoid any adverse systemic side effects of the topically applied oestrogen, it will be important to determine the minimal effective dose and frequency of application needed to produce the keratinization response.
The frequency of releases needed in the 47 knees of the release group were one (31 knees), two (11 knees), three threee knees), and four fourr knees).
The types and frequency of reminders needed to reach low income children may differ from those for more affluent, privately insured children.
