The service size of each application is exponentially distributed with different means for different message applications.
Longevity in the industry; service; size (4 seats, 200 seats, no seats?); ambiance; price; all of these; none of these?
Service size (<500 patients meeting eligibility criteria vs >=500).
Potential confounding factors such as health service size and casemix would be controlled for in the analyses.
* AOD = Alcohol & Other Drugs; combined = AOD and mental health service (combined) ** Service size is determined by number of employed clinicians and other professional staff; small (Sml): 2 to 20, medium (Med): 27-80, Lrgge (Lrg): 124-403 *** Ind = Independent organization.
38 Subgroup analyses will be carried out using the three prespecified strata: (1) ACCHS versus general practices, (2) service size (small vs large) and (3) current participation in QI programmes vs past or no involvement in these programmes.
The random allocation of childcare services will not be stratified, given previous studies have found only slight differences in implementation of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices by service type (preschool or long day care service), size or the socioeconomic or geographic characteristics of the service locality.
All four indexes were composed of variables using measures of travel time to, or isolation from a service, catchment size, service specific identifiers and three of the four used measures of socioeconomic vulnerability [ 17, 23, 24] Table 1.
Figure 2 gives a description of each nursing home, focusing on how each one organized the service, ward size, architecture and food services.
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