We used three referral metrics: Practice referral ratio: the indirectly standardised number of urgent referrals for suspected cancer by general practitioners, standardised according to the general practice's list size and to the age and sex distributions of people on the list.
Rates of morbidity were compared with the general population registered at the same general practices, and standardised by age, gender, and neighbourhood deprivation.
With this program, general practitioners register standardised diagnoses of asthma, atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis on-line.
General anaesthesia was standardised and included intravenous fentanyl, propofol and atracurium for induction of anaesthesia and maintenance with inhaled isoflurane in oxygen-enriched air and epidural analgesia.
The risk of individuals diagnosed with HCV developing HCC was greatly increased compared with the general Scottish population (standardised incidence ratio=127, 95% CI: 102 156).
A higher incidence of lymphoma was observed up to wk 160 with golimumab 100 mg (0.18/100 pt-yrs) than with golimumab 50 mg (0.04/100 pt-yrs) or placebo (0.00/100 pt-yrs), and also relative to the general US population (standardised incidence ratio (SIR) of 6.69 and surrounding 95% CI of (2.45 to 14.56), which was not inclusive of 1; table 5).
Hospitalisation rate ratios (HRRs) comparing the survivor cohort with the general population were calculated overall and by age group using standardised mortality ratio techniques, and were standardised to the general population by single year of attained age, year of event and sex (Juul, 2006).
The variables and the macro-categories applied to search for gender differences in the use of technology should be standardised for general use within any social-educational context in order to be able to establish divergences and convergences within the same interpretative framework.
Outlying subjects were excluded from general linear models if standardised residual values were >3.3 (Tabachnick and Fidell, 1996).
The neuropsychological batteries comprised cognitive tests that were standardised to the general population, psychometrically sound and widely used in this patient population (Strauss et al. 2006; Mitrushina et al. 2005).
