Age, sex, educational level (no education, some, completed primary, completed secondary, completed tertiary), marital status (currently married versus never married, widowed or separated) and co-residence with children.
Min Max Mean age (years old) 39 23 64 Education Secondary 76 Tertiary 24 Marital status Single 6 Married 94 Average household members (persons) 4.5 1 9 Period of on-going business (years) 5.3 0.1 20 Period of AIM support received (years) 2.5 0.1 7 Source: Own survey, 2014.
At recruitment, all women completed a questionnaire on ethnic group, marital status, tertiary education, employment, reproductive factors, smoking and physical activity.
Other measures recorded during the home interview (CAPI) included age, gender, highest level of educational attainment (primary, secondary or tertiary), current smoking status, history of cardiovascular disease and medication use.
It is possible that factors such as provider care ratios (bed-physician or bed-nurse ratio), tertiary care center status, urban/rural locale, or the presence of infection specialists or infection teams at the hospitals may explain or enhance some of the differences observed between the smaller case volume hospitals and larger case volume hospitals.
Some of the respondents choose not to answer certain questions related to income, marital status and tertiary qualifications.
Initially, the clinical, (patho physiological and psychosocial determinants of the CAT, and impact of cardiovascular comorbidities on health status in tertiary care patients with COPD, will be examined.
To study the clinical, (patho physiological and psychosocial determinants of the CAT and impact of previously established and/or new diagnosed cardiovascular comorbidities on health status in tertiary care patients with COPD.
As a proportion of overall ICU admissions, DKA increased progressively in rural and metropolitan ICUs but decreased in tertiary centres, while physiological status in the first 24 hours of ICU admission improved significantly.
Reduction rates vary across provinces due to climatic variations and different development statuses of tertiary industry.
