Figure 5 illustrates the proportion of exception flows found in each investigated SPL.
11 Although publicly available QOF data do not allow the proportion of exception reporting to be calculated for all clinical indicators, it was possible to make this calculation for each of the QOF indicators included in our study.
First, proportions of exception-reported patients included in the denominator were successively increased by 10 percentage points from 0% (equation 1) to 100% (equation 2) to identify potential switching points (ie, the levels at which the sign and statistical significance of the estimated coefficient changed).
Differences due to growth statures mostly explained a minor proportion of variance with exception of RSR and SRL.
For exception reporting, we decided to choose the mean proportion of patients who were exception reported for each of the clinical indicators based on achievement of an objective measured outcome, (namely blood pressure, serum levels of cholesterol, HbA1C, TSH or lithium, or an FEV1.0 measurement by spirometry).
Several factors contributed to this: first, with a few exceptions, the proportion of the variance accounted by mapped QTL has commonly been small.
After standardisation for age and sex, the proportion of residents with disease wide exceptions was noticeably higher in care homes for all conditions, with 33.7% of residents in care homes with stroke excepted from calculation of Quality and Outcomes Framework target payments compared with 16.9% in the community, and 34.5% compared with 9.2% for diabetes (table 3).
Overall, our experiments show that the distribution of contribution types remains unaffected by the disclosure of contributions and, on average, is similar both in the two countries and when compared with previous findings with the exception of proportion of free-riders.
Overall, the data presented here is very similar to previously published results of SPG stimulation [8 10] with one exception: The proportion of acute uses of the stimulator achieving effective therapy was lower than previously reported (39% vs. 65%).
With increasing age, the proportion of Proteobacteria decreased, with the exception of two eczema infants E-2 and E-3 at 3 months of age (Figure 1B).
