Each one of these sites constituted one sample for the purpose of incidence-based analyses.
For the purposes of incidence calculations, test specificity for typhoid fever and brucellosis was assumed to approach 100%.
Due to the structure of the Egyptian population denominator estimates, age categories were slightly modified to 25 39, 40 54, and ≥55 years of age for the purposes of incidence rate calculations.
These cases have been included for the purpose of calculating incidence rates as they represent real cases and so trends in incidence of these endometrial cancers were analysed.
For the purpose of the incidence study, we defined a negative HIV test result as one in which the client's whole-blood rapid HIV test result was non-reactive.
For the purpose of determining incidence, we examined age by four age bands 60-699, 70-79, 80-89, and 90 and above).
The lower rates of recording compared with cancer registries suggest that primary care data may be less fit for the purpose of measuring incidence in older age groups.
The main purpose of the incidence model is to account for new cases of undiagnosed and diagnosed diabetes in the population over time.
In this study, the dengue incidence was calculated from the weekly number of dengue-like syndromes and data from the Institut Pasteur were only used for validation purpose of this incidence.
A short questionnaire was designed for the purpose of investigating incidence of chronic pain, body parts affected and the use of primary healthcare resources to attempt to address the pain.
For the purpose of the incidence estimate, patients were estimated as recently infected when diagnosed and sampled within 155 days after infection, or as having a long-standing infection (LSI) when diagnosed after 155 days following infection.
