Sentence examples for practice stratum from inspiring English sources

The following characteristics of the respondents were analysed: type of practice (stratum), geographical area, gender, year of graduation, degree and field of specialisation.

Interviewees (practices) and interviewers were blinded to the practice stratum so that neither the practice, nor the interviewers were aware of the stratum from which the practice was drawn at the time of the interview (see Table 1).

The audiotape from one practice in stratum 2 was inadvertently damaged precluding analysis.

By contrast one practice in stratum 1 felt that he was under too much other pressure to consider training in diabetes.

Practices in stratum 4 in particular tended to have been early adopters, one practice in this group stating that they started implementing 'HOPE' very soon after publication.

Practices in strata 3 & 4 were also more likely to acknowledge the benefit of diabetes education whereas those practices in stratum 1 reported themselves to be under too much pressure from other areas of work to undergo additional education.

Practices in strata 3 & 4 were more likely to mention utilising protected learning time for in-house training in order to develop the practices' systems and teamworking.

We recruited three practices in the high stratum and three practices in the merged medium and low strata (a mix of low and medium engagers).

Randomisation was blocked and stratified by geographical area based on groups of 10 12 neighbouring practices and using a computerised random number generator to allocate a near-equal number of practices in each stratum to intervention and comparison arms.

Step 2. Identify and document the forest management practices for each stratum during the RP, using the best available data.

The practices are stratified by practice size (two strata), to ensure equally sized groups.