But the authors don't replicate their finding using alternative definitions of poverty.
To look into this issue we run the simulations using alternative definitions of pre- and post-SS lifetime labor incomes, which exclude employer and employee contributions.
First, for the NIS, we examined using alternative definitions of access: 1) Removing cases age less than 18 out of total surgical discharges; 2) Removing all transplant Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) and any craniotomy DRGs; and 3) limiting discharges to only hip and knee surgery procedures (DRG 209, 471, 503, 544, 471, or 545) and mean cost per discharge based on the definition.
Correlation coefficients remained low when we conducted sensitivity analyses using alternative definitions of EBV miRNA positivity.
Recent studies have used alternative definitions of "intrinsic" and "extrinsic" noise in characterizing multivariate signaling dynamics (Selimkhanov et al., 2014).
Our findings should thus be validated in other datasets, using alternative definitions of exposure, before the construction of a public health intervention programme is considered.
The impacts of using alternative definitions of osteoporosis on hospital LOS and cost estimates, however, should be addressed in future studies.
This challenge can be overcome by using alternative definitions of the outcome, like persistent joint swelling or erosive disease, which are examples of more objective outcomes in early arthritis patients.
Although the IV method using ENSANUT also found decreases in outpatient and medicine expenditures at the national level, it did not find significant effects in inpatient expenditures (and this result was the same using alternative definitions of SP enrollment at the household level, alternative sets of covariates and alternative sets of instrumental variables).
Sensitivity analysis was done using alternative definitions of stillbirth: Stillbirth at ≥ 20 weeks of gestation Stillbirth at ≥ 24 weeks of gestation Stillbirth at ≥ 28 weeks of gestation Stillbirth at ≥ 20 weeks of gestation Stillbirth at ≥ 24 weeks of gestation Stillbirth at ≥ 28 weeks of gestation Where both unadjusted and adjusted measures were reported, the latter were extracted.
