On the other hand, unlike many other studies, we used an "intention-to-treat" model and included everyone who had received at least one prescription for buprenorphine, not just those who remained in treatment; so our findings are probably more representative of the outcomes of all who enter treatment, not just those who remain in treatment.
Are they representative of the outcomes?
The first through fourth quartiles were coded as follows: 1 = very low HRQoL, 2 = low HRQoL, 3 = high HRQoL, and 4 = very high HRQoL, with scores of 1 representative of the worst outcome and scores of 4 representative of the best outcome.
Because of the nested case control sampling design, the oversampling of failure outcomes on a subset of women was not representative of the failure outcome percentages of the main study.
All patients then transition to well TKA, representative of the average outcome after TKA.
We used a consecutive series from one Swedish hospital to estimate the revision rate for HTO, which may not have been representative of the national outcome.
When the sampling weights are related to the values of the model outcome variable even after conditioning on the model covariates, the observed outcomes are no longer representative of the population outcomes due to the sampling or response process and the model holding for the sample data is then different from the model holding in the population.
Since these 9 patients were randomly sampled from the one million patients, the results of this study maybe representative, but the outcome of decreased utilization of ER and hospitalization service could not be overstated.
Therefore, the calculated sample size was not realised for the randomised trial and it is possible that the study sample was non-representative for the outcomes of interest.
This increases the likelihood that a test done in the gel will be representative of the actual treatment outcome in a human.
