1. Statistical offices collect large amounts of data for statistical purposes. Respondents are only willing to provide the statistical offices with the required information if they can be certain that these offices will disseminate their data with the utmost care. This implies that the confidentiality of the data must be assured. Therefore the amount of detail in the publications has to be limi...

We studied the bias and precision of serum cholesterol analysis by physician's office analyzers. Total imprecision (CV range, %) for analysis of serum pools was: Abbott Vision 1.5%-1.9%; Ames Seralyzer 3.9%-4.5%; BMD Reflotron 2.3%-3.8%; Chrometrics Cholesterol Test System 2.3%-2.8%; Kodak DT-60 1.6%-2.2%. The Ames Seralyzer exhibited an excessive between-run component of variation. We collecte...

This article reports the data of the Modified Somatic Perception Questionnaire (MSPQ) administered to a sample of 143 immigrants accessing an outpatient clinic or the general practitioners offices in Genoa (Italy) compared with 186 Italian patients. For further details and for the interpretation of the data, the reader is referred to the original publication "Somatic perception, cultural differ...

Limited attention has been given to the concept of place in social work research and practice. This paper draws on the national evaluation of social work practices (SWPs) in England undertaken between 2009 and 2012. SWPs were pilot organisations providing independent social work services for children in out-of-home care in five sites. One factor distinguishing some of these pilots was their att...

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OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

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This article is devoted to the analysis of scope activities prosecutor’s office authorized monitor implementation land legislation, some issues mutual distribution responsibilities between them, related regulation relations in foreign countries, tasks and powers offices sphere, includes proposals for improving legislation. In particular, aspects organization relevant departments General Prosecu...

We abstracted the records of patients from general surgeons' offices in Winnipeg to compare waiting times from charts (i.e., the gold standard) with waiting times using administrative data. The administrative data method relies on physicians' billing data to identify a visit to the surgeon preoperatively to mark the start of the waiting time. There was no difference between waiting times using ...