For physical function, patient responses were anchored by the question; 'Compared to your FIRST EVALUATION at the University Orthopaedic Center: how would you describe your physical function now?'(much worse, worse, slightly worse, no change, slightly improved, improved, much improved).
"He's up there with best players I've played with," said Gash. "He's come to us as a very young lad on trial and he's improved, improved, improved.
Furthermore, we asked each patient to classify his/her knee condition as follows: greatly improved, improved, no change, slightly worse, or greatly worse.
(response items: completely recovered, much improved, improved, same, worse, much worse).
Response Scale: Much improved; Improved; Somewhat improved; No change; Somewhat worse; Worse; Much worse/much less control Q2.
Global perceived effect will be measured with a 6-point Likert scale with categories: completely recovered, much improved, improved, no change, worse and much worse.
"From the first minute to the 70th we were improving, improving, improving," said Mourinho.
"And it's biology, it's my own fault," she continues, an exasperated reply to the media's frequent exhortation of women: Improve, improve, improve!
The government is being urged to launch a reform programme to help improve improve the lives of children in care.
And a recent review examining studies purporting to show the benefits of such products found "little evidence... that training improves improves everyday cognitive performance".
Oh, that and never stop improving, or "improving, improving, improving" — to put it in the words of Mikitani.
