Furthermore, part of this sample was recruited through a palliative care team, which means there is a risk of selection bias that need to be taken into account when considering the representativity of this population.
Larger sample sizes and a greater representativity of the Brazilian population should be aimed, helping to improve the reliability of our results, the robustness of factorial structure and the amount of evidences of validity.
We believe that this design guaranteed the best representativity of the studied population.
This was confirmed in our study (Karnofsky performance score: trend only) arguing for the representativity of the study population.
One of the strong points of this study is the large sample size (3,710 workers) and the representativity of the study population.
We aim to describe how representative GP networks in the EURO SENTIMELC study operate to monitor end of life care in a country, to describe used methodology, research procedures, representativity and characteristics of the population reached using this methodology.
The objective of this report is to describe how representative GP networks in the EURO SENTIMELC study operate to monitor end-of-life care in a country, to describe used methodology and research procedures, and to present representativity and characteristics of the population reached using this methodology in 2009 and 2010.
Several tumour areas were sampled in each tumour to obtain a full representativity of the tumour cell population and to avoid the sampling of genetically different subclones.
In an attempt to provide more information on the representativity of the general female population cohort, we explored the possible difference between early and late responders.
The representativity of our GP population should be considered.
