However, information on patient mortality occurring after the episode was not available, and episodes reported in two different health regions for a single patient were not necessarily identified by a single identifier.
Data linkage, especially between databases with a large number of records, is facilitated when each record in the dataset is unambiguously identified by a single numeric identifier such as a social insurance number.
(Like several others involved with the apartment, they asked that I change their names. I have used pseudonyms for anyone identified by a single name).
The alumni roster of the school, which was founded in 1896, includes many of those people in fashion who can be identified by a single name.
"A lot of times, people have a few drinks and forget to watch for their turn," said Andrew (the two prefer to be identified by a single name and as one person).
On a recent afternoon, Ms. Schaffer-Shaw advised three clients, all of whom requested that they be identified by a single initial, some because they worried that their turning to a psychic might cause problems at work.
Tuesday was Remembrance Day but alongside the commemoration of fallen soldiers came another roll-call: Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, Victoria Climbié - all children killed by a parent, step-parent or guardian - and the newest addition, Baby P, identified by a single, lonely consonant.
The unknown parameters are simultaneously identified by a single test and without damaging the structural integrity of the specimen.
VRE bacteremia case-reporting errors between January 2009 and August 2013 were identified by a single retrospective audit.
† S obs observed number of species including those identified by a single read, S exp expected number of species according to Chao estimation (Eq. 1).
In an MPLS network, such multiplexing can be considered by putting different streams into a tunnel identified by a single label-switched path (LSP), assuming that the different LSPs are assigned a reserved share of the resources.
