Luwis Diya, Msc, is Research Associate, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium.
Koen Van den Heede, PhD, RN, is Research Associate; and Walter Sermeus, PhD, RN, FEANS, is Professor, Center for Health Services and Nursing Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Emmanuel Lesaffre, PhD, is Professor, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium, and Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Accepted for publication October 29, 2010.
The authors thank the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office in collaboration with the Belgian Federal Ministry of Public Health for funding the original research project (framework of the research program Agora 2005 AG/HH/123 Quali-Nurse) that was the source of the observed data in this article. The computational results in this article were obtained on the HPC cluster VIC3 of the K.U. Leuven.
Corresponding author: Luwis Diya, Msc, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35, Blok D, bus 7001, B3000 Leuven, Belgium (e-mail: [email protected]).
