The RHS provided reimbursement for outpatient procedures (visits, laboratory, and instrumented examinations), hospital admissions, HAART, and non-HAART drugs to each regional health care structure.
Physician claims include information on the principal diagnosis for the visit (one diagnosis per claim), medical procedure, visit date, and clinic type and location.
The LRW procedure visits not only the vertices in the cluster but also a certain amount of vertices close to the cluster.
Direct cost included medications for acute treatment and prophylaxis, diagnostic procedures, visits, complementary treatments and informal care.
A description of the study procedures and visit schedule was previously published (15).
We averaged across the four health plans the mean allowed cost for each procedure, visit, service, or drug to create a standardized price for the state[ 14].
The electronic system is used for administrative purposes in all services at the health care complex, and every procedure, visit, laboratory examination, vital sign and other data gathered during hospitalization or outpatient visits is compulsorily recorded along with the date and a unique identifier.
Satellite clinics will be set up in San Francisco and in England, and three technicians trained in Dr. Hwang's procedure will visit to perform the cloning.
We have previously described the IONDT eligibility criteria, randomization procedure, and visit protocols in detail [ 1].
Following the household screening and selection procedures, interviewers visited each selected woman at her home to administer the survey.
