Briefly, persons eligible to participate were not institutionalized or wheelchair dependent, did not require a proxy for consent, were not receiving treatment for cancer, and were expected to remain in their respective regions for 3 years.
To empirically explore this mechanism, we require a proxy variable for the parameter, and as a candidate for the proxy, we utilize information on the performance-based payment system for each firm.
In tele-dermatology, a measure often used was the percentage of patients requiring further consultations: a proxy for patient outcome, as the dermatological problem is taken as resolved if the patient no longer required specialist care.
14 Yet, as fetal testosterone cannot be readily measured, papers assessing the relationship between fetal testosterone and ASDs, including our study, require the existence of a proxy, for example, 2D:4D.
They said they wanted to ensure that where a takeover might be the eventual objective, it would require a normal proxy fight for a dissident to join the board.
Although further validation against other disease datasets as a proxy for pandemic flu is required, we show that PMEWS is rapidly applicable for triage of large numbers of flu patients to self-care, hospital admission or HDU/ICU care.
Specifications of quality indicators often require the use of approximations, and some measures are a proxy for a broader concept.
Cancer mortality data are used as a proxy for the number of people requiring end-of-life care.
Cancer mortality data (Cancer Research UK, 2010) are used as a proxy for the number of people requiring end-of-life care.
This suggests that SI data, which require much less processing than the LST data, could be used as a proxy for LST.
