There is little population based data providing a detailed examination of these older adults, who now have had better survival rates than ever before.
Nationwide population based surveys providing unbiased information regarding the prevalence and clinical characteristics of persons with diabetes are scant [ 5, 6].
To be included, studies had to provide data for children, provide data separately for leukaemia, be population based and provide measured or calculated residential magnetic fields inside a home.
The health care system in Oman is population based and provided mainly through Ministry of Health (MoH) institutions.
21 The findings from such a population based study provide representative evidence of stroke care in similar populations with similar provisions of healthcare.
The rates are population based, and provide useful public health information by identifying the number of emergency room visits attributable to martial art injury in the Kingston area.
As we have no reason to expect that members of a liver patient association are less informed, we are confident that this population based study provided a reliable insight in the HRQoL of chronic liver patients in Western countries.
The present population based national study provides evidence that medical abortion is not associated with additional risks of adverse events among adolescents in the short term compared with adult women.
This demonstrates the need for population based interventions that provide the face-to-face support typical of commercial programs, in addition to the more traditional awareness raising and education strategies.
However, condition unspecific rehospitalization data as used in this study have only limited value and a population based study cannot provide in-depth insight into treatment episodes of individual patients within different settings of hospital reimbursement.
However, the comparative approach taken in this article also implies that further work is necessary in order to understand how well different population based funding formulae provide for the actual costs for health plans and, in turn, for health care needs.
