For unplanned visits, we estimated the cost of the visit using the cost for each CPT code associated with the visit from the VA cost accounting system.
Normalisation of the data on number of visits using log-transformations had little impact on this relationship; hence the simpler analyses were presented.
The parents also provided approximate dates of visits, using a calendar to determine the sequence of events.
Nested case control design matched by visit type (acute or follow-up visit) and month of visit was used for analysis of association of bacterial pathogens and tympanometric results.
By December 2006, 95% of all office visits had diagnoses available on the same day as the visit, when 98% of office visits used some form of HIT for entry of visit diagnoses (Advanced HIT for 67% of visits).
Finally, we determined the total number of prenatal visits by using whichever estimate of the number of visits was greater, and whichever estimate of gestational age at first visit was earlier, based on these two methods.
The degree of agreement between the number of visits measured using patient-report and from patient files was assessed using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC).
A 12-lead ECG was performed on all participants at the end of the visit, using standard procedures.
The study participants were chosen at regular intervals from their sequence of ANC visit using systematic random sampling techniques.
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