Based on the advice of disaster planners and historical records, we considered five scenarios, S 1, S 2, S 3, S 4, and S 5. Demands for products and services under the 4th and 5th scenarios are more than other scenarios because of higher earthquake magnitude in these scenarios.
27 For the rare (1%) children for whom the physician documented hearing loss but a formal assessment was absent from all records, we considered hearing loss to be present.
If we did not find two or more selected patients in CARDSS or if discrepancies in demographic information or therapeutic decisions existed in more than two records, we considered all the data of the centre in question to be unreliable and excluded them from the analyses.
Although the time of surgeon completing the operation was not recorded, we considered our measure of length of operation time to be an acceptable estimate as the time between completion of surgery and the patient leaving operating theatre is typically five minutes or less.
In the absence of any of these conditions being recorded, we considered the induction of labour before 41 weeks to be elective.
Since local health departments use the medical record as the primary information source to complete the RVCT, and all reported information should be contained in this record, we considered it the "gold standard".
Then, for each record, we match the information to the geographical area's name of interest; if it matches, we count the record and we consider its phylum.
For each of the subscriber's records in the call detail records, we then consider the frequency and distance to other towers.
In those days, record companies seemed to have unlimited amounts of money to blow on dumb stunts to promote dumber records, and we considered it our revolutionary duty to make sure that they spent as much of it as possible on entertaining us.
In analyses for the subset of cases with medical records data, we considered the procedure specified in the operative note to be the reference-standard.
