The strengths of this analysis include the nationwide population-based samples from two national health surveys with largely identical sampling and measurement methods, the standardisation of BP, weight and height measurements and the availability of high-quality medication data.
To increase our understanding of how GPs react to the development towards increased standardisation of practice and the weight put on cost effectiveness by national authorities, we would like to reproduce this study among British GPs.
Unfortunately this is only a partial solution since it now means that each centre could be using a different set of weights and so, in exactly the same way as for indirect standardisation, comparisons between centres are not fair.
In direct standardisation, for each centre event rates are calculated for every combination of the casemix variables and then these casemix specific event rates are combined using a set of weights which is the same for all the centres.
Standardisation of scalar attributes such as height or weight involves transformation of all quantities into a common set of units, such as from British imperial to SI units.
The standardisation of indicators under each component was conducted, along with weighting, at each level of the vulnerability assessment hierarchy.
There followed a period of standardisation of diagnostic criteria.
It was more important to maintain the standardisation of the drawing size.
An interest in slang is, not surprisingly, contemporary with an interest in the standardisation of English.
I think there have been improvements in some of the standardisation of the care.
