Though slightly more complex, the GRACE risk scores for in-hospital and 6-month mortality are derived from a more representative community-based registry [6], [7].
Consequently, larger and more representative community-based studies are required.
They include: greater representation of marginalized groups in research; data that are more representative of community needs; and increased opportunities for local capacity-building and empowerment (Israel et al. 1998; Higgins and Metzler 2001; Israel et al. 2005; Wallerstein and Duran 2006).
There is now a desperate commitment to making local public sector bodies more representative of the community.
But in the backlands of the north and east the Tigers, despite their brutality, were the only government that most Tamils knew, and were more representative of their community than the postwar Sinhalese administration.
We should be more representative of the community.
Further work is needed to examine aspects of access, costs, and quality of care with larger, more representative samples of community acupuncture patients from multiple clinics.
On the other hand, such studies are likely to be more representative of a community setting in which the molecular prognostic assay would be applied [ 52].
Furthermore, a conservative analysis that classifies patients with missing DNA flow cytometric measurements as negative for DNA content abnormalities may be more representative of most community and academic clinical practices that may not have easy access to a DNA flow cytometry laboratory.
