Each selected case was matched for sex and age with another child (as control) with TSALD>−4mm attending the same clinic, in the same time period.
Ten parents of children diagnosed with OI attending the same clinic, but independent of the children sampled; and five health professionals, located within the above mentioned clinic, specialising in the treatment of children with OI were also interviewed.
We note that participating in the control arm of the CIGNIS trial resulted in a halving of the stunting rate compared with children from the same clinic who reached the recruitment age of 6 months just before or after the CIGNIS recruitment period and were thus ineligible [ 10].
The first source Meyer-Bahlburg cites, "Psychosexual outcome in women affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency" (Wisniewski et al., 2004), involved contacting 41 women with CAH from the same clinic (Johns Hopkins) to participate in a survey on optimal timing for feminizing genitoplasty.
In 1987, four men were convicted on federal charges in connection with the firebombing of the same clinic.
They have experience with ethnographic research in the same clinic and knowledge of the dynamics within the environment.
We therefore sought to determine treatment outcomes among adolescents (predominantly perinattally infected) attending a large community-based ART service in Gugulethu Township, Cape Town, South Africa, and compared these with young adults attending the same clinic.
This paper describes a study that was designed to assess the representativeness of patients treated for an eating disorder within a randomised controlled trial (RCT) by comparing the trial sample with patients seen in the same clinic before and after the period of recruitment for the trial.
Age-matched controls were selected from women with normal cervical cytology attending the same clinic.
The strength of this study lies in the setting in normal clinical practice and in the relatively long follow-up time, also that the patients have been followed at the same clinic with easily accessible and comprehensive electronic medical files for follow-up.
