Although each physician was requested to enroll a minimum of seven patients, the enrollment target was not met in Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines.
The number of families requesting to enroll children in the district rose last year — 365 out-of-district students were permitted to enroll and 169 students received approval to leave, according to Pasadena Unified spokeswoman Hilda Ramirez Horvath.
The physicians were requested to enroll the first seven osteoporosis patients who met the inclusion criteria.
After the training, the healthcare workers were requested to enroll people with diabetes from their localities in the FILDCARE Project.
Each participating site was requested to enroll at least five and no more than 30 consecutive eligible (existing or incoming) patients visiting her/him during the recruitment period.
Each physician was requested to enroll the first 10 eligible patients who met the eligibility criteria and gave written informed consent.
When each eligible infant with cholestasis was enrolled, a preterm infant without cholestasis was matched for gestational age, birth weight, and severity of respiratory illness, and the parents' informed consent was requested to enroll, the infant as a control subject.
Participating psychiatrists were requested to enroll approximately 60% into the Olanzapine cohort and 40% into the Other cohort, although the final ratio of patients was left to the psychiatrists' discretion (i.e., all or none of an investigator's patients could potentially be enrolled into the Olanzapine or Other cohort).
Throughout 2006, a total of 237 randomly selected physicians in Malaysia (n = 37), Taiwan (n = 50), the Philippines (n = 50), Korea (n = 50) and Singapore (n = 50) were requested to enroll seven consecutive eligible osteoporosis patients who were willing to take part in a telephone questionnaire concerning the significance of vitamin D and calcium to osteoporosis therapy.
