Although highly representative of the facilities surveyed, the generalizability of the results from these respondents to other areas is uncertain.
In contrast, the results of a second assessment carried out in 2000 on a sample representative of the facilities in the country suggested that practices had substantially improved [ 7].
All on-site visits were performed by the Project Coordinator together with a representative of the surveyed facility, during the period February-November 2009. February-November 2009
The chosen health facility was viewed as broadly representative of the other health facilities in the district providing TB services.
The work of Polite Kids is representative of the many smaller facilities for children unable to be accommodated in government facilities.
We assume the national figure is representative of the proportion of facility-based births in the voucher region.
Representatives of all the facilities participating in that improvement effort attend these sessions ; they offer participants opportunities to discuss experiences, air problems and harvest solutions, and make plans for further improvement efforts when they return to their facilities.
The limitation in Spain has been imposed trying to be representative of the potential of the facility also in other regions that establish similar limits for hybridization [12, 13].
We also assumed that the particulate matter measurement at the facility is representative of the exposure to each of the women who delivered at the facility.
The DHMT decided to solicit the input of community representatives through the facility committees which had been established previously at every health facility.
