Patients HIV+ attending in a reference clinic, Southern Brazil.
Referencing lists of potential study participants, the recruiters approached the patients when they came to the clinics for their regularly scheduled appointments.
Setting: A rehabilitation center acting as a reference for cardiology clinics lacking this facility.
He also started methadone clinics for addicts.
Such network would enforce the role of public vaccination clinics as reference point for HCWs and general population and encourage an active role of general practitioners, paediatricians and gynaecologists for vaccination promotion.
Since the comparison clinics provide the reference point for measuring program impact, the first table examines the intervention and comparison clinics at baseline to assess the validity of making comparisons between these two groups.
Samples were obtained from patients who presented to the NRPE, the United Kingdom CJD Surveillance Unit (CJDSU), the German Reference Centre for Prion Diseases, the Clinic for Nephrology, the Institute for Clinical Pathology, and the Division of Psychiatric Research at University of Zürich.
Haroon et al. investigated 231 consecutive patients in general clinics using a reference criterion for a normal value of >53 nmol/L [ 21].
CA-125 is to this date one of the few proteins that is routinely used as a biomarker of cancer in the clinic and the reference standard for validation of new biomarker candidates [14].
Finally, it should be pointed out that these clinics have become a reference point for women who practise prostitution in Asturias, thanks to the confidence that they have in the doctors and staff there.
