Patient characteristics and procedure data are shown in Table 3.
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.
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.
If the isolate was not available for these additional procedures, data were obtained from the records of the microbiology laboratory.
Prior to the procedures, data were collected on the name, age and anthropometric data [body mass, height and body mass index (BMI)] of each subject.
Methodological difficulties have often precluded the development of adequate experimental procedures: data are not always consistent.
