The findings are tentative, being based on a small sample of cases in Hong Kong.
While the commission instituted a pilot program last September to monitor liquidations, the report recommended that the S.E.C. expand its sample of cases under scrutiny to include those involving unauthorized trading and nonmember affiliates.
For three weeks, counsel for the FCO, sitting in an artificially-lit basement court at the Royal Courts of Justice, have been cross-examining 27 claimants in a sample of cases intended to assess the reliability of their accounts.
Internal communications show that HCA officials in charge of quality were involved in the decision to review a sample of cases from some cardiologists at the hospital.
To make the litigation more manageable, a severity chart has been created to classify injuries in six major disease categories by type and seriousness, a classification scheme that will help the court pick a sample of cases.
The sample of cases is drawn from the period 1996 to 2001.
Placentas of a sample of cases and seronegative controls had polymerase chain reaction and culture performed.
These cases were part of a previously published [15] sample of cases.
Furthermore, for a random sample of cases, we determined whether bloodstream infection and pneumonia would also have been identified with the CDC definitions.
In a case-control study, a sample of cases is compared with a group of controls who do not have the outcome of interest.
We now (1) determined whether this finding could be replicated in a new sample of cases and controls, and (2) analyzed HA sub-scores (HA1−HA4) to further understand case control differences.
