Inter-reviewer agreement was measured by the kappa statistic for the following categorical variables: funding source, geographical origin, intervention assessed, unit of randomization and primary outcome category.
Among these variables, funding availability and allocation are significant factors since they can dictate priorities and shape the direction of technological development, elements that impact the eventual sustainability and success of a given technology, and thus its robustness.
Technical assistance was not significantly associated with preparedness scores when it was included as an explanatory variable with funding; however, our funding data included salaries for technical assistance.
The segments retail products include mutual funds and variable product funds underlying insurance and annuity separate accounts.
Bed-based financing for the inpatient TB services has been replaced by fixed and variable cost funding.
The main explanatory variable was funding status (industry versus non-industry), adjusted for intervention type (drug or medical device versus non-drug) and number of patients in the trial (≥100 versus <100 patients).
A one-way ANOVA also failed to demonstrate statistical significance between the overall/composite score on the Jadad scale, measured as a continuous variable, and funding source (F = 1.853; df = 3; p =.143), trial outcome (F = 1.003; df = 3; p =.395) and allocation concealment (F = 1.319; df = 2; p =.272).
Its purpose is to review the relationship between sustained biochemical response in active versus control group versus usual clinical variables as IFN regimens, cirrhosis, genotype and versus less frequently addressed variables as funding, methodological quality or location of principal author.
We also did a logistic regression to compare the dependant variables of actual cost and mention of cost simultaneously with the independent variables of funding, conclusion, primary author's country, and product age.
"The reason is that the variable annuities' funds generally consist of smaller pools of money than do those of mutual funds.
