Outcomes of the recruitment process were measured as the proportion of practices that agreed to participate, the proportion of potentially eligible subjects who consented to take part in the trial and the attrition rate of subjects.
Less than 5% of the potential number of hospital nurses (104 of 2300) participated, while the proportion from primary health care was 20%9999 of 500).
In all participating countries the proportion of women in whom axillary surgery was not performed increased with age, a finding consistent with another observational study [ 23].
In the participating units, the proportion of infants receiving human milk at discharge in 2003 varied from less than 35% in Ile-de-France, to less than 50% in the Trent region, and more than 55% in Lazio.
I label participation any of support, participation, or panic, and call the proportion of the population participating the participation rate.
Among those who declined to participate at baseline, the proportion of men was significantly higher than among those who agreed to participate (p < 0.001).
In the analyses of visit characteristics (Tables 4 and 5), each visit in the sample was weighted by the inverse of the sampling probability, reflecting both the chance that the particular provider participated and the estimated proportion of that provider's annual visits included in the study.
Finally, although the participating hospitals reflect the proportion of (non) university hospitals in the Netherlands, they are all located in the urban agglomeration in the Western part of the Netherlands, which might be of influence on the educational level of the patient population.
In the visit analyses, each visit in the sample was weighted by the inverse of its sampling probability, which reflected both the chance that the particular provider participated and the estimated proportion of that provider's annual visits included in the study.
However, if appropriate dose adjustments and enhanced self-monitoring were in place for high and very high risk diabetes patients who still insisted on participating in Ramadan, the proportion of pharmacists who still discouraged fasting decreased to 20%and38%8%, respectively.
