In case of gaps location and size of untreated skin areas were documented with a standard hand drawing.
Autogenous iliac cancellous bone or resected callous formation was used to fill the osteotomy gap in case of opening wedge osteotomies.
Therefore, all the calculations of the cumulative index were repeated in case of higher gap between the estimates: 1, 2, 4… 1, 2, 7; 1, 3, 4… 1, 3, 7; 1, 4, 5… 1,4,8.
Positional entropy is calculated as (8) S j = ∑ i ∈ AA − p i j × log p i j Where, S j) = entropy calculated at sequence position j, where the sequence position is defined with respect to the multiple sequence alignment, i = amino acids, in case of a gap insertion in the sequence alignment each amino acid is given equal count, while evaluating the frequency.
Transition preparation efforts encompassed staff training to prepare people for the transition, alignment of both clinical and administrative structures, as well as the accumulation of buffer stocks in case of a gap in supplies and financial reserves at the time of transition.
In case of knowledge gaps during the interview the interviewer offers targeted counselling by trained staff to the participant.
In case of knowledge gaps they are offered free targeted counselling as well as free HIV rapid testing and post-test counselling of HIV and hepatitis test results.
In case of knowledge gaps, participants are offered to see a counsellor, even if test results are not requested by the person.
Interviewers learn to conduct the questionnaire-assisted interview via intensive face-to-face training and to offer counselling by a trained person in case of knowledge gaps.
Learning facts about transmission and prevention of blood-borne viral diseases during the interview and being counselled in case of knowledge gaps is one of the interventional parts of the DRUCK-study.
