We included those with pain referred into the legs provided it was predominantly above the knee.
In order to identify those who should be referred into a prevention programme, it is also important to design and evaluate pragmatic methods of identifying those with a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes which can be integrated into routine health care systems.
Only few cases were referred into the programme by school or daycare centres, even though it can be assumed that staff in these institutions should often be able to identify children with substance-abusing parents.
Given the increased public and professional debate about child sexual exploitation, every child identified as a victim of internal, domestic trafficking should be referred into the NRM so they are afforded the protection that they deserve.
Patients were originally referred into the program by physicians or through automated referrals following cardiac hospitalization.
The reasons are complex, but again greater demand is playing a role - the numbers being referred into the hospital system are on the rise.
According to this second algorithm (referred into the article as "phenocopy method two", PM2), five additional datasets have been generated, with different markers associated to the affected status.
Participants are referred into the study by Care Coordinators or self-referral.
Patients requiring tertiary level care may be referred into the Thai hospital system.
Purposive sampling was adopted to allow enrolment of those referred into the study by their friends or school mates.
