Facebook told BuzzFeed News that Jones' comments in the video, which was posted to his verified page, did not violate community standards because they are not a credible statement of intent to commit violence.
In 4,603 (21%) of the 22,169 verified cases, GPs did not participate, resulting in a GP participation rate of 79%.
Patients with hospital-acquired laboratory-verified bloodstream infection did not receive inappropriate antimicrobial treatment more often (41%) than those with community-acquired infection (42%, P≅0.892).
For this analysis, we excluded 1,152 women who had been trying to conceive for more than six cycles at enrollment, 596 women without a verified cycle length who did not complete any follow-up questionnaire, 134 with insufficient information to calculate cycle length, and 141 who were pregnant at entry.
In 4,603 (20.8%) of the 22,169 verified cases, the invited GPs did not respond (GP response rate: 79.2%).
One suggestion from authors to combat these practices is for review sites such as Amazon to only allow accounts linked to Facebook pages, or to verified purchases, to post reviews (Amazon.co.uk did not return requests for comment about how it will tackle the issue).
The additional analyses on the subpopulation of patients with verified COPD (FEV1/FVC <70%) at baseline did not in any case significantly differ from the results reported.
We defined a contiguous region of integration as a 3-km buffer around these polygons, and verified that using a larger region did not affect estimates of model parameters.
The data quality and quality control of the Finnish Cancer Registry is valid [ 19], and it is highly confident that all diagnosed cancer cases were registered and those who only self-reported cancer did not have a verified diagnosis.
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