During the initial clinical examination, the periodontal status was determined by means of a comprehensive periodontal assessment: lost teeth, teeth with bone loss over 5 mm, mobility grade, and periodontal pocket >4 mm were used to define a history of periodontal disease.
In other words, we are still relying on the subjective assessments that lost out to the weight of the case file over half a century ago.
Two t = 0 and one t = 4 assessments were lost because no sections could be produced showing the drill hole, leaving 22 t = 0 and 15 t = 4 assessments.
Couples Retreat has all the integrity of a movie that fought for the PG-13 assessment, and lost everything in the process, if there was anything there to lose in the first place.
BW, body weight; VO2peak, peak oxygen uptake; HR, heart rate; VE, total pulmonary ventilation; RER, respiratory exchange ratio; SD, standard deviation Risk factor assessment was lost in one male patient.
In some assessments, the losing coach is "defensive," the losing quarterback is a "locked-up guy" and the winning quarterback is "so joyous".
The baseline characteristics of participating students who completed the postintervention assessment and those lost to postintervention assessment are shown in Table 1.
Thirty-six patients had only baseline assessments and were lost to follow-up for the following reasons: canceled surgery, loss of follow-up due to the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto from April to June 2003, additional operative procedures, postoperative medical reasons or patient choice to discontinue.
Some participants said that during periods of stability in symptoms or remission many of the advantages of mobile-phone assessment would be lost, and that this form of assessment would be 'overkill' (ID1; male in his thirties).
Differences between total scores achieved at baseline by students who completed the postintervention assessment versus students lost during the study (who did not complete the postintervention assessment) were tested with the Mann-Whitney test.
