Adoption is defined as the absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of settings that are willing to introduce an initiative [ 6, 7].
Part of the RE-AIM Evaluation Framework, adoption of an innovation can be estimated by assessing the proportion and representativeness of settings (such as community organizations) that adopt a given policy or program [ 8].
This helps to explain why younger children with less background immunity have make up a higher proportion of cases in endemic settings, while cholera incidence tends to be age independent in epidemic settings.
Although most patients from health care settings were infected with GII.4 (712/785, 91%), this genotype was detected in a significantly lower proportion of patients from community settings (421/781, 54%) (p<0.001).
New York — which has long had a higher proportion of teenagers in institutional settings than other large cities, according to John B. Mattingly, commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services — is among several places nationwide prioritizing a push toward private foster homes.
Responders included a higher proportion of surgeons in academic settings compared with non-responders (p = 0.024).
These findings support the theory that the high proportion of GII.4 in hospital settings is caused by viral characteristics rather than host characteristics.
Both the clinic and the GP practice were situated in an area of high economic deprivation on the outskirts of a major (UK) Northern industrial city, and a large proportion of patients in both settings lived locally.
The number of contacts made by each individual each day in school, work and community settings were adjusted to reproduce the proportion of cases occurring in different settings as reported by empirical studies, specifically 40% of infections occurred in households, 30% in schools and workplaces and 30% in the wider community.
While SCCmecI remained the prevalent subtype in acute care (AC) and non-AC settings, the proportion of MRSA containing SCCmecII and SCCmecIV was higher in non-AC settings.
It is shown that the JPS scheme improves estimation of the population proportion in a very wide range of settings as compared to simple random sampling (SRS).
