To identify those not using the services, we obtained lists of staff from different organisations (e.g. community nursing teams, GP practices, care homes).
35 In an effort to ensure that participants were accessing similar PHC services, we obtained a random selection of telephone numbers for ESED participants from telephone exchanges and geographical areas where at least one completed survey from Chinese-speaking or Punjabi-speaking participants occurred.
To determine who provided the healthcare service, we obtained the specialty of the department connected to a claim with a psoriasis or PPP diagnosis code.
Our approach starts from a multiservice scenario and the maximum capacity of the cell, and based on the services parameters we obtain the optimal capacity assignment for each service, and then, as final objective, we obtain the optimal cell radius.
For more detailed, i.e. event-based analysis of correlations among service usages, we obtain the distribution of time interval between two consecutive or simultaneous events but of different services of the same user.
"Many people write as though we make some great sacrifice by disclosing private information to others, but it is in fact simply the way that we obtain services we want — whether the market services of doctors, insurance companies, Internet service providers, employers, therapists and the rest or the nonmarket services of the government like welfare and security".
The drug prescription database contains the information on prescriptions issued to outpatients within the regional health service, and we obtained information on date of prescription, drug, and number of packages.
To help explain the price variation in intermediate medical services across different locations, we obtain data on the size of the local hospital industry, the amount of medical lab employment, the size of the local area, local population counts, as well as other geographic and demographic attributes from a variety of data sources.
We obtain this service time as random draw from the service time distribution for the type and severity of the particular CFS.
We obtain free services from Google and Facebook because they are characterising our desires and matching us to companies that can satisfy them.
