During the baseline census 15 households did not provide verbal consent and have consequently been excluded from the study.
Most of the patients with septic shock were sedated with benzodiazepines and, consequently, were excluded from our study.
Respondents who completed the survey in less than 15 min were considered to have devoted too little attention to the questions and, consequently, were excluded from the analyses.
Therefore, in this study any RT measuring less than 140 ms was considered a measurement error and, consequently, was excluded from further data analysis.
The first Stokes vector element I (corresponding to backscattered intensity) was used to identify pixels with low intensity, which consequently were excluded from further calculation.
One patient who underwent resection had a recent tooth infection at time of serum sample collection and consequently was excluded from analysis.
One patient had been deceased due to metastatic cancer (with an intact prosthesis) and 10 patients (10 hips) were lost to follow-up (7%) prior to their 24-months post-operative visit and consequently were excluded from this study; although they had well-functioning prosthesis at last-follow-up.
Thirty-four patients were initially included; however, two of them turned out to have an increased risk for complications, and consequently were excluded: One because of smoking more than 10 cigarettes per day, one because of extensive bone loss in the area of prospective implantation.
Furthermore, observers were not blinded to the measurements and consequently expectation bias cannot be excluded.
However, these mutations might not be detected with certain mutation-specific detection methods (Anderson et al, 2012) and consequently these patients might be excluded from clinical trials with BRAF inhibitors or regular treatment with vemurafenib (Flaherty et al, 2010).
