Due to differing estimates of U.S. Medicare overhead (i.e. excluding versus including private insurer administration of medical plans) [ 16], we explored the effect of using Canada's Medicare as an alternative comparator to calculate the excess BIR costs of U.S. insurers.
However, despite the availability of appropriate and accepted methodologies, studies we reviewed here used diverse methodologies and were of widely divergent quality – some with major weaknesses, and, presumably therefore resulting in differing estimates of mortality.
In practice, most criteria are insensitive [ 26] and different sets of criteria give differing estimates of who has vascular dementia [ 26, 27].
For the moment, with the cause of these differing estimates up in the air, when considering the two national polls that show Obama ahead it would be prudent also to keep in mind the two that show the race essentially tied.
Recent trials have provided differing estimates of the benefits of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) for non-insulin treated patients with type 2 diabetes.
A key reason that this has occurred is that the use of alternative models across studies produces differing estimates of the deterrent effect.
Small studies have suggested differing estimates of the prevalence of LVH in m.3243A>G mutation carriers.
Recent large scale cohort studies in Australia 5 and Sweden 6 have yielded differing estimates of the risk of HCC in HCV infected patients ranging from a 23-fold to a 35-fold increased risk.
While the prevalence of deafness in these respective breeds is also not the same [ 6], as the JRT is less affected compared to Dalmatians, differing estimates of the heritability of deafness between the breeds could be suggestive of dissimilar mechanisms resulting in a similar phenotype.
An elderly woman and a child were among those pulled from the ruins, as the body count of the dead grew to 7,140 and officials offered differing estimates of the ultimate toll.
