Those who reported an induced abortion were asked further questions about the care-seeking pathway, including providers visited, methods used for induction and any complications experienced.
To summarize these frequencies, we categorized the level of prenatal care per trimester according to the quartile distribution of the number of visits (see Methods and Additional file 1 for details).
It defines a visitor, an object with a visit method that is executed for each node in the AST.
A home-to-home-visit method was adopted to sample pigs [ 27].
The practice visit method (VIP) measures 385 indicators making up in 51 dimensions of practice management.
PvdH was the main author, developed the practice visit method, originated the research questions and wrote the paper.
RG was involved from the start of the development of the practice visit method, supervised the project and commented on the paper.
We used a validated practice visit method (VIP; 385 indicators in 51 dimensions of practice management) to compare having experience in a developing country or not.
Having multiple sources of information helps facilitate comprehensive assessment, and a valid and acceptable accreditation visit method, as used in the Dutch national accreditation program, helps to provide reliable information, follow up over time and background data for all sorts of research.
To avoid confounding by either potential correlation between the three parameter indicators, or by unbalanced distribution or chance capitalization we used linear regression analyses (General Linear Model).[ 14] 1004 GPs in 566 practices in the Netherlands were assessed with the practice visit method VIP between 1999 and 2002[ 15 , 16.
Yet an international comparative study relating practice performance to consultation time, time per patient, indirect time spent on patient care and job stress using the practice visit method EPA would provide valuable information.[ 35] A prospective study to analyse if practice performance improves by increasing practice time per patient would be valuable for future policy on manpower.
