To our knowledge, our study is the first to correlate clinical outcome score improvement to the extent of radiographic reduction of the spondylolisthesis in a substantial number of patients.
This indicates that Blacks with end-stage arthritis are not experiencing the arthroplasty-associated quality-of-life improvements to the same extent as Whites.
33 We used the net reclassification improvement measure to assess the extent to which adding the genetic variables reassigned people to risk categories that better reflected their final outcome.
The trial was designed to assess time to improvement of symptoms, the size of any improvements, and the extent to which women can resume their daily activities following treatment.
Dynamic mechanical analysis and tensile property measurements showed concurrent improvement in mechanical properties when compared to the neat PBSA and the extent of improvement is directly related to the extent of delamination of silicate layers in the PBSA matrix.
These remedies and procedures, however, may be authorized with respect to debts that are exempt from the Debt Collection Act of 1982 and the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, to the extent they are authorized under some other statute or the common law.
According to the UN, governments should improve health care quality to guarantee citizen rights, not just because quality improvement is efficient nor to the extent that quality saves lives.
"These include improvements to engines, transmissions and tires; increased use of start-stop technology; improvements in air-conditioning systems (to the extent currently allowed by law); increased use of hybrid and other advanced technologies; and the initial commercialization of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids," the proposed regulations state.
To the extent improvements are needed, the answer is to pass laws to fine-tune the system, not clutter the Constitution.
Three months of allopurinol treatment in hyperuricemic patients led to improvements in endothelial function directly related to the extent of sUA reduction, and this improvement was not seen in normouricemic controls treated with allopurinol [ 30].
