The phrase "a shortened length" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a length that has been reduced or made shorter in some context, such as measurements or durations.
Example: "The project was completed in a shortened length of time due to the team's efficiency."
Alternatives: "a reduced length" or "a brief length".
Interestingly, the former study found a shortened length of hospital stay in the GDT group and concluded that GDT improves postoperative outcomes, but the latter study found no significant effect of GDT in a composite outcome of complications and 30-day mortality.
In contrast, cells treated with 1 retained their microtubule network, albeit with a shortened length.
In addition, TIPS (-4.5 days; p < 0.04) and primary biliary cirrhosis/primary sclerosing cholangitis (-8.3 days; p < 0.01) were associated with a shortened length of stay.
We hypothesized that a more restrictive fluid management might lead to a shortened length of hospitalization and a decreased rate of complications in our patients.
Comparing the laparoscopic right hemicolectomy to the open hemicolectomy with transverse incision, the advantages of the laparoscopy are a shortened length of the incision [ 36] and a decreased blood loss [ 38].
Brodner and colleagues [ 23] and Beattie and colleagues [ 24] showed that the perioperative use of epidural analgesia leads to a shortened length of stay in the ICU and also a decrease in cardiac events.
For American women, prenatal anxiety has had a strong association with shortened length of gestation, [ 25], epidural analgesia, unplanned caesarean section [ 26]; and preterm birth [ 27] For Swedish mothers, depression/anxiety was positively associated with risk for planned caesarean section and increased length of labour [ 28].
The purpose of the present analysis is to determine whether organophosphate pesticide exposure, as assessed by biologic markers, is associated with poorer fetal growth and shortened length of gestation in a cohort of pregnant women living in an agricultural community in the Salinas Valley of California (Eskenazi et al. 2003).
Further, a shortened stride length "was associated with a 50.6percentt probability of falling within the next three weeks".
Furthermore, such a modification is localized by defining a shortened smoothing length.
Conclusion: Midtrimester cerclage does not alter the risks of prematurity associated with a shortened cervical length in twin gestations.
