. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2016 Jan 25;60:66–76. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.01.007

Table 1.

Six possible combinations of the distinct value intervals of age and BMI for two hypothetical studies and the observed patients in each combination.

Combinations of value intervals		Number of Patients	Percentage of studies recruiting patients with the characteristics	Percentage of patients eligible for the trials
Age	BMI (kg/m²)	Number of Patients		Percentage of patients eligible for the trials
0–20	0–25	10	0%	10%
0–20	25-inf	10	0%	10%
20–50	0–25	20	50% (Study B)	20%
20–50	25-inf	40	100% (Studies A and B)	40%
50-inf	0–25	10	50% (Study B)	10%
50-inf	25-inf	10	50% (Study B)	10%