Patient characteristics and procedure data are shown in Table 3.
Procedure data were only available until the end of 2009.
The procedure data are presented in Table 2.
Although procedure data are not as objective as automatically-recorded laboratory data, we believe that the validity of procedure data is higher than that of recorded diagnoses.
After the study procedure, data were read with Polygram Net™ 4.01 software (Medtronic GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany).
Procedure data are collected differently in emergency departments than in physician offices and hospital outpatient departments and, therefore, are not comparable.
Ambulatory, emergency department (ED), urgent care and hospital diagnostic and procedure data are linked to all medical records from all primary and specialty care providers in the county.
After completion of the indicated filtering procedures, data were assigned to the experimental groups: non irradiated DC vs UV-irradiated DC.
Methodological difficulties have often precluded the development of adequate experimental procedures: data are not always consistent.
Extended Experimental Procedures Data are available from http://mus.well.ox.ac.uk/poe.ac.uk/poe
