Diversity and inclusion should achieve a workforce that is representative of all the societies and cultures in which the business operates and should harness a workplace culture where we can truly live our values.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria ensured a homogenous population that is representative of breast cancer patients worldwide.
Our style is "Representative".
Another consideration when identifying content areas for inclusion was whether representative statements generated by participants during consultation activities captured caregiver experiences or whether they captured broader contextual factors that influenced caregiver health literacy.
Polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM) and inclusion body myositis are representative phenotypes. 1 Both PM and DM are thought to be immune-mediated disorders that can be successfully treated if properly managed.
Despite the low overall response rate which was a consequence of up to date details on RCM members not being collated by the College and thus not available to the authors, a high number of responders met our inclusion criteria and were representative of the current midwifery workforce.
It is also important to note than our population came from a randomized controlled trial with restrictive inclusion and non inclusion criteria and might not be representative of mCRC patients in general [ 25].
Nevertheless, in this type of study, the samples do not need to be representative, though inclusion of respondents representing a broad range of health states will help to give a more accurate picture of the level of agreement; if too high a proportion of the sample is in a narrow range of health some of the correlation coefficients can be artificially inflated.
Our population was younger, had a lower prevalence of insulin resistance (<8% of participants, even after inclusion of diabetic subjects), and was representative of a Western European middle-aged population free of diabetes.
The 23 children with T1DM + CD who fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the study were representative of all the 45 T1DM + CD children (22 were excluded: 2 secondary concomitant illness, 4 recently diagnosed and 16 missing data), with no significant differences regarding sex and age at diagnosis of CD or T1DM (p = 0.853, p = 0.239 and p = 0.790 respectively).
