Several differences, in fact.
The differences in fact go far beyond timing, as Mr. Breaux well knows.
This bandwidth differences, in fact, provoke a high dynamic range.
The largest differences, in fact, were found in terms of perceived but not objective weight status or treatment status.
There were no other baseline differences in FACT-G, Ryff, or IES scores between those who were lost and those who were not.
We also examined effects on reconsultations for selected common infections in a subset of practices and found no important differences; in fact the observed rate was lower in the intervention group.
Construct validity was assessed by comparing mean differences in FACT-G total and subscale scores according to known groups, i.e. patients performance status, in vs. out-patients and by studying the correlations between the instruments (convergent and discriminant validity).
Scheffé post-hoc comparisons showed significant differences in FACT-G total and subscale scores according to ECOG PSR (Table 3), indicating that patients with worse functional status rated lower in the QOL multidimensional assessment.
On the basis of data from previous studies, sample size calculations suggested that a sample size of 400 patients would be required to detect clinically significant differences in FACT-An score between haemoglobin groups.
When studies do report sex differences it is often difficult to interpret these differences because of an unequal distribution of men and women, or the confounding effect of occupation and/or marital status, implying that sometimes sex differences in fact reflect occupational differences [ 21].
