The final full analytic sample consisted of 25,748 workers, of whom 9,171 (36.0%) were recruited using employee lists; the remainder contacted the registry after media and community outreach encouraged enrollment (self-identified).
Excellent information has been obtained in the monthly fall calendar postcards that are routinely returned by the majority of participants (approximately 70% fully completed each month), with the remainder contacted by telephone for completion of the calendars at the end of each month.
Of the 7 known human HeV infections, 2 have been associated with postmortem examination of affected horses (8, 9 ) and the remainder with contact with clinically ill horses in the late incubation period (2, 10 ).
The remainder of contacts involved various types of flat contacts in which the target membrane runs parallel to the outer viral envelope and otherwise does not exhibit any detectable deformation.
Of the 88 secondary cases in outbreaks, 57 (65%) lived in the same household as the associated primary case; the remainder were contacts either in institutions or in linked second households.
Response rates for the nine surveys ranged between 64% and 69% of the eligible sample; an additional 24%to27%7% were refusals, and the remainder were non-contacts.
Wonga has also agreed to contact the remainder of its 1 million customers, informing those who are not affected that this is the case.
From this pool, we were able to enroll 29 in our focus group study and 28 in the intervention study, with the remainder recruited through telephone contact.
For the remainder, research nurses made contact with parents on their mobiles when medication(s) and the clinic review were due.
First, 16% of participants died over the course of the study, while 18% discontinued the study because of health problems or lack of interest, and the remainder were difficult to contact.
