For convenience, the target number of patients was rounded to 1,500.
For the calculation of the absorbed doses in children the same biokinetic models as used in adults were used, and the age of each patient was rounded to the closest of the ages 0, 1, 5, 10 and 15 years and adult.
Although many of those put in quarantine shared a flight with the sick patient, others were rounded up simply because they held Mexican passports.
Averaged fatigue grades for each patient by cycle were rounded into original metric values (eg, 0, 1, or 2).
Refill percent values above 100 for patients who refilled earlier than scheduled were rounded to 100percentt.
Odd numbers were rounded.
The total number of patients included was rounded up to 100.
Patient age was rounded to the nearest year to facilitate binning and comparison.
^Characteristics relevant to n = 24 patients and carers †Characteristics only relevant to n = 20 patients * Where data is rounded percentages may not equal 100.
In mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's patients, the scale allows estimates to be rounded off to the nearest integers without loss of precision.
