Excluding the items, adjusted earnings were $256 million, or 36 cents a share.
For the nine months, stripping out one-off items, "adjusted" pre-tax profits were up 18% at just over £5bn.
Excluding amortization expenses, divestiture-related losses and other items, adjusted earnings for the latest quarter totaled $304 million or 20 cents a share.
Broadcom, which makes microchips for digital television boxes and other consumer items, adjusted its quarterly revenue estimates upward after Wednesday's session.
Excluding the write-downs and other one-time items, adjusted earnings for the fourth quarter were $1.9 billion, or $1.28 a share, 6 cents better than the consensus Wall Street estimate of Thomson Reuters.
Excluding items, adjusted earnings from continuing operations grew to $260 million, or $1.98 per share, from $235 million, or $1.68 per share, last year.
Hence, a ratio of the sum score of the effort items (nominator) relative to sum score of the reward items (adjusted for the number of items; denominator) greater than one indicates a high level of psychosocial work stress.
For single items, adjusted differences were computed similarly, with confidence intervals computed by bootstrap BCa and p-values by permutation tests [ 25] in order to compensate for the non-normality of the data.
Notably, PACSLAC is one of the few instruments in which the item collection is based on pain items specifically geared towards elderly persons with dementia, instead of items adjusted from existing scales developed for use in different patient groups (like paediatrics).
Propensity scores were determined by running logistic regression models that evaluated the probability of a positive response to an item adjusted for all remaining items and covariates except gender.
