This calculation should not be undertaken at the facility level but – as foreseen – by the district, regional and national level, using the absolute numbers submitted from each health facility in the respective area.
Here, we instead used the absolute number of changes in the evolution of a given character as a more appropriate measure of its degree of conservation.
In assessing the report cards posted by physicians to their MHS, we used the absolute number of cards and did not correct for variation in MHS region size.
Second, a pragmatic reason was that if thresholds < 80% were used, the absolute number of patients in the nonadherent groups was low, especially for oral hypoglycemics.
As the reshuffling makes the dataset prone to yield undefined pairwise distances [ 44], we simply used the absolute number of differences between sequence pairs for generating the distance matrix.
We therefore used the absolute number of RNA-Seq reads per gene loci (log10 transformed), which show a clear correlation with HybMap levels, in an unbiased fashion with regards to length (Additional file 2; Figure S7).
Labour's poster uses the absolute numbers of patients rather than the proportion being seen in less than four hours.
As the same relative increase in a small and a large practice involves a larger number of patients in the large practice, and since GPs have to treat real numbers of patients, we used the absolute numbers of patients.
