This large proportion was because of exclusion of patients with contralateral hip implants (as metal ion analysis was undertaken) and exclusion of patients with moderate or severe hip dysplasia (as such patients were not eligible for RHA at our institution).
The use of this hierarchical coding model and performing three separate χ2 analyses allowed us to keep data in the sample rather than excluding a large proportion of cases because of poor documentation practices.
And these speculations may be the basis for treatment duration trials in this disease where the new, most efficacious FU+oxaliplatin combination cannot be tolerated by a large proportion of patients because of cumulative neurotoxicity.
Local and regional stages were combined because of the large proportion of cases upsataged because of surgery [ 12].
It is important to know that a large proportion of patients die because of the severity of their disease and the associated comorbidity but not due to failure of the antibiotic.
It could be a significant boon to the economy, too, enabling migrants, who now save a large proportion of their wages because of fears about the cost of health care, to consume more.
Cash buyers now constitute a large proportion of all transactions because of the difficulty in securing mortgages, yet they are not counted by the Halifax or Nationwide, which compile their indices from mortgage data alone.
Previous population-based case-control studies were unable to interview a large proportion of eligible cases because of severe illness or death [10], [32], [33].
In the study by Adams et al. (2011), for instance, women had a mean urinary creatinine concentration around 0.4 g/L; thus, U-Cd values were overestimated for a large proportion of their subjects because of very low urinary creatinine values (< 0.3 g/L).
8 One of the reasons why prostaglandin inhibitors may be effective in delaying delivery is because of the large proportion of women at risk of preterm delivery owing to intrauterine inflammation and infection.
