Studies were excluded if another report from the same trial with more updated data was available.
Those risk factors, for which complete, reliable and updated data was available for all the EU countries, were selected for the model calculations.
Of the 41 studies selected from the Cochrane 2006 report, 14 were identified as having updated data available (e.g., results previously published in abstracts were now available as final publications or updated data were available from Amgen or Centocor Ortho Biotech) (Table 1).
Even in countries where updated data are available, it may be difficult to establish the size and composition of the health workforce because the collection and dissemination of representative occupational data using the ISCO-88 standard at the three- or four-digit level (or other comparable national classification) remains less widespread.
That share declined slightly as financial markets tanked in 2008, and updated data is not yet available, but inequality has almost certainly resurged.
Although updated data is more likely to become available with the extended resources and collaboration of individual investigators, it must be noted that updating of previously published data is not inherent nor confined to IPD meta-analysis.
Although accurate updated data are not available, it is estimated that some 20,000 permanent workers are employed by the industry in Costa Rica (2) and that some 7,890 harvesters were needed for the 2004 2005 harvest (3).
Updated data were scheduled to be available at the end of last year.
Our study was performed only for the period 2003 2007 because more recent, updated data were not easily available.
Improvement of risk estimation methods and vulnerability assessment schemes is warranted whenever cutting-edge development of earthquake science and recent or updated earthquake data is available.
22 In Sierra Leone, 93 cases were reported in 2003 in remote rural communities of Bombali and Port Loko districts in the northern region, though there has been no survey done on yaws and no updated surveillance data is available at this stage.
