The phrase "already existing items" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to items that are currently present or available before a certain point in time or before new items are introduced.
Example: "The inventory includes already existing items that need to be sold before we can add new stock."
Alternatives: "currently available items" or "pre-existing items".
Content analysis the 36 additional barriers revealed 20 were already covered by the existing items, and 10 were proposed by one respondent only, thereby indicating good content validity.
Although, the HAE patients highlighted additional concepts above those already captured by the instrument, most of the additional symptoms, triggers or warning signs described by patients were seen as similar to those already included, or secondary symptoms captured by existing items on the questionnaire.
Instead, links to existing items in eCommons are provided for items already in eCommons.
The existing medical benefits advisory committee regularly reviews new items proposed for the Medicare schedule, and on occasion existing items.
* Adding new "Extra Value Menu" from existing items.
A successful renovation does not translate into replacing existing items.
4) Shop your closet -- rather than buying new items, repair, mend or alter existing items you have.
Existing items from the literature were also included.
Because we wanted an easy to administer questionnaire, we (the authors) opted for a 20-item questionnaire, which is in the lowest range of item numbers of the already existing QUOTE instruments like the QUOTE-IBD (23 items), QUOTE-HIV (27 items), QUOTE-Occupational Therapy short version (23 or 12 items).
By observing concept creation dynamics we can set some to be the short-term layer according to the following (frequency and recency) rule: For n concepts in the latest clustering output, choose newly-created and already existing concepts whose input item growth is high in a reverse order (newness) of the output sequence.
