A detailed process has been put in place that tracks the receipt of recommendations within the required timescales, highlights nonresponses and distributes the recommendations to the relevant QA Team members for classification and further instruction.
The average time from receipt of recommendations to survey date was 13 months (SD = 6.6).
A detailed process has been put into place that tracks the receipt of recommendation responses from the service, which allows completed recommendations to be analysed by discipline, type and time to completion.
For factors that are potentially influential to childhood vaccine uptake, we inquired about respondents' education, marital status, number of children, household income, mother's employment, youngest child's history of influenza and history of influenza vaccine receipt, and recommendation(s) from a pediatrician or school/nursery.
In a 2008 study, Watterson et al. [ 17] sent letters to several hundred organisations located in every Australian jurisdiction except Queensland, following their receipt of coroners' recommendations, to inquire how they had responded.
Our outcome variables are based on seven of the American Diabetes Association diabetes care recommendations: receipt of a cholesterol test, routine checkup, influenza vaccination, eye examination, dental checkup, foot examination, and two or more A1C tests in 1 year.
The difference in receipt of colonoscopy recommendation remained statistically significant even after accounting for the effects of other covariates (AOR, CI--0.59, 0.44-0.88, Table 3).
However, there is a possible wealth effect on, first, receiving a diagnosis (and therefore for inclusion in the study sample) and, second, on the receipt of a recommendation for surgery [ 9, 28].
Further research is required into whether there is a wealth effect on, first, receiving a diagnosis and, second, on the receipt of a recommendation for surgery which may indirectly lead to wealth inequalities.
§Adjusted for random effects of physician and practice and for family history of prostate cancer, history of PSA testing, receipt of physician recommendation for testing, current plans for PSA testing, and patient approach to discussing PSA testing at next visit (as applicable after stepwise regression).
