3.3% of the population requested a home visit within 12 months.
Nearly 40% of the population requesting an intervention was aged <50, a proportion slightly decreasing over time (40.1% in 2001 vs. 36.5% in 2010).
The request rate - i.e. the proportion of the invited population requesting a test kit - was 11.9% within 4 weeks after the initial invitation.
This paper follows the guidelines for publication of population data requested by the journal (Carracedo et al. 2013).
Non-EU students went on to make up 35 per cent of all cases, but accounted for just 12 per cent of the student population, requests from 70 universities showed.
Another potential limit of the study is the incomplete control over potential selection of both the children and parents' population: however, the enrolment of the requested number of children was achieved by all paediatricians in due time, making selection unlikely.
The prolonged life expectation and aging of population has brought the escalating request of artificial material to regenerate diseased bones [8, 9, 10, 11].
Such observation is valid also for the areas outside the GRA where a large amount of population translates into an important request of mobility in a very dispersed area.
The study population was comprised of patients who requested medical services by the SOS doctors in the area of Attica, Greece, that is inhabited by 3,894,573 people (population census March 18 , 2001, during the period 1/11/2000 – 31/10/2005, which, at the time of the study, was the most recent one of available data.
Two of the population-based studies requested death certificates to verify causes of death and were successful in obtaining them in the vast majority of reported deaths [ 16, 18].
