To determine the magnitude and importance of declines in model performance associated with altering the data source and time frame from which comorbid conditions were identified in claims-based risk adjustment among persons with hip fracture.
Central government contracts (PTT) are of most importance for midwives (nine districts had more than one third of their midwives employed on this basis) and of declining importance for doctors.
They are bit players, of declining importance, in a much larger drama.
Grapes are largely restricted to marginal farmland and are of declining importance.
Although of declining importance, manufacturing still takes place in Gennevilliers, including the production of components for the automobile and aeronautical industries, metal products, chemicals, and electronics.
A more gloomy view would be that Mr Arruda was the governor of a small state and a representative of a party, the conservative Democrats, that is of declining importance.
This study was undertaken to examine the relative importance and potential interactions of declining fertility and increasing weed pressure in reducing maize (Zea mays L). yields, and to examine the effectiveness of combinations of weed control and sheep manure fertilization rates in sustaining productivity.
The big family, a patriarchal, multi-generational group of related families, a kin or clan, was of declining importance during the discussed period.
By order of declining importance, non-mutually exclusive risk factors were: travel to endemic countries (30%), MSM (18%), household contact of a case (10%), IDU (6%) and others (homeless, institutionalized patient, patient with chronic liver disease) (5%).
The importance of trust and observation of declining trust [ 15, 16] in the healthcare setting has led to the examination of its predictors.
