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Because a valid ground for omitting items in models with causal indicators is that they occur too infrequently to be worth reporting [ 36], we decided to omit those items which fulfilled two criteria: a mean score for influence on dignity lower than 2.50, and a percentage below 25% of respondents who indicated that the item influenced their dignity quite a lot or very much (score 4 or 5).
Errors were largely omitting items in the history and physical, with little bearing on the study data set.
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The exclusion of all subjects with more than four omitted items in the PCL-R reduced the sample to 113 subjects.
The WFIRS-P domain scores for each patient were the mean of the items in each domain, or of all the items for total score, omitting items with a missing or 'not applicable' score.
The NHPD was devised from the NHP, specifically omitting items relating to physical disability and items precluding its use in hospitalized patients [ 9].
In our test the within-test navigation, meaning the sequences in which items are answered, and the possibilities for revising and omitting items, were even more important.
In particular it does not include breathing, sleeping, eating and elimination as does the 15D, or dexterity, cognition and memory as does the HUI 3. Conversely, all of the other instruments omit items included in the AQoL-6D.
Both resulted in improved and non-significant overall item-trait interaction statistics (omitting item 9: P = 0.133; omitting item 24: P = 0.194).
++ Sum score omitting item 8.
However, the overall residual means and standard deviations did not improve (omitting item 9: mean [SD], -0.498 [1.171]; omitting item 24: mean [SD], -0.494 [1.282]) and reliability decreased slightly (omitting item 9: 0.831; omitting item 24: 0.840).
The hypotheses concerning the reason for misfit of the omitted items are presented in the second column of the table.
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