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Preferably, measures of inequality in healthy life expectancy (the number of years in full health an individual born today can expect to live [ 17 ] ) would be computed, but this paper focuses on a preliminary step for which data are more readily available - developing methods for the measurement of total inequality in the probability of child survival.
Last week Time magazine reported some preliminary results from a poll it has been conducting on its Internet site about whom it should pick for its "Person of the Century."
Preliminary data suggest that the combination of pegylated interferon and ribavirin will increase sustained response rates to more than 50% overall, and to greater than 40% in patients with hepatitis C genotype 1 infection [ 18 ] . Hepatologists need to understand other physicians' perspectives on hepatitis C so that they can adequately address their concerns about treatment issues.
When you have determined (through the preliminary assessment) that the data are of undetermined reliability, consider conducting additional work (see figure 6).
As noted previously, the proposed rulemaking published on January 3, 1996, includes a Preliminary Regulatory Evaluation.