Study formulas are started straightaway after randomization and are provided for the four subsequent months.
For the statistical modelling, no missing data were imputed, but the analysis was restricted to the baseline and four subsequent months, given the small numbers of patients remaining in the programme thereafter.
Each PCVAD-positive herd was considered infectious in the month when PCVAD was first reported and in the two subsequent months for a total duration of 3 mo, as non-infectious otherwise, and as censored after the month of the interview.
Subjects were surveyed prospectively from qualification onwards and at three subsequent time-points (6 months, 18 months and 3 years).
The first such mission which consisted of a pair of vessels bearing medical supplies and some 45 activists was permitted to reach Gaza in August 2008, and four missions in subsequent months were also successful.
Among the boys with undescended testicle(s) at birth (n = 138), all but one had documented orchiopexy or a subsequent observation of cryptorchidism in at least one of the three subsequent examinations (ages 4 months, 1 year, 7 years).
Among the boys with undescended testicle(s) at birth (n = 138), all but one also had a subsequent observation of cryptorchidism in at least one of the three subsequent examination (ages 4 months, 1 year, 7 years) or documentation of orchidopexy.
In PD patients in the same study no difference was observed in hospitalisation rates between the first three months on dialysis and subsequent months.
MBCT teachers were trained in the study protocol for MBCT during a 3-day training retreat in the beginning of the project, as well as at three subsequent training days every 6 months.
When evaluated again at the three subsequent clinic visits (day 7; months 1 and 3), there was again no difference between the two treatments in the proportion of NLFs that had maintained this one point or better correction, as evaluated by both the physicians and the subjects (Table 1; Figures 1 and 2).
