aCountries, which reached a large overvaluation of procedures number due to influence of own applied methodology of counting and reporting the surgical procedures are as follows: Belgium, Germany and Slovenia, a medium overvaluation: Estonia, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Even where data exist, it is difficult to compare them because the methodology of counting and trend monitoring differs among individual Member States.
The methodology of counting the number of microvessel entities in regions with an elevated vascular density has been adapted for the assessment of LVD, although this is based on the assumption that a functional increase in lymphatic vessels occurs in 'hot spots'.
Given that the methodologies involved – of counting individual deaths at INDEPTH sites and aggregating upwards, contrasted with taking available data sources and constructing global models to derive national estimates – are completely different, this congruence in findings adds plausibility to both approaches.
Digital methylation-sensitive high resolution melting (dMS-HRM) was introduced as a methodology for counting methylated and unmethylated alleles of the BRCA1 gene [ 11].
With only three years to go before the expiry of the MDGs, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) announced an "improved" methodology for counting hunger.
The counting protocol is an adjusted version of the time to "count-to-ten" methodology using focused counting [ 14].
That means that every methodology for counting is as likely to be erroneous as accurate.
But methodology for counting has recently come under criticism.
The Institutional Methodology (IM) counts more types of assets from more family members than does the Federal Methodology (FM), which means that families with substantial assets could have a higher EFC under the IM formula.
Using the ADDM Network methodology, the network counted a total of 3680 8-year-old children as having an ASD in 2002 and 2004 in all study sites with available case and SES information, which were those located in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
