Due to the predominant item-based fee-for-service payment arrangement in the dental market in Hong Kong, dentists typically adopt a curative or restorative rather than a preventive approach when treating patients.
Insects are the predominant food items for sun bears in Indonesia and Malaysia, except during mast fruiting events when they become almost completely frugivorous [15], [16], [39].
Based on the predominant food items listed, we distinguished three diet preference classes: insects and other invertebrates; plant material; and omnivorous/carnivorous.
However, diet was also analysed as a discrete variable, using the predominant (or strict) diet item as category (see model-based analyses below).
As each of the items which are involved in the mean Contrast-value (hence the TDC-value) is related to the baseline level of severity of myogenous TMD, a regression will also be lacking in the relationship between TDC and baseline values of items like predominant pain of the masticatory system (VAS-scores) and Health-related Quality of Life (EQ-5D utility units).
Such characterizing items are the predominant pain of the masticatory system (VAS-scores) and to some extent generic Health-related Quality of Life (EQ-5D utility units).
Apart from a 100 mm VAS for intensity of predominant pain, adjectival 0 4 point scales (giving a choice between 5 states) have been used for all other items to reduce the time-load of patient and clinician.
Termination of a case in the life-table analysis was the introduction of a food item discontinuing exclusive breastfeeding and starting predominant breastfeeding, and discontinuing predominant breastfeeding and starting complementary feeding.
Our interpretation was based on previous studies carried out on the same reference population, in which "oral pain-discomfort" was the most predominant cause of impact within those items [ 13].
The predominant "gaps" in the present PROMIS PF item bank are in "ceiling" activities above the population average and at the "floor" represented by institutionalized populations.
If the cognitive changes resulting from ChEI treatment in AD patients are assessed with appropriate tests or selected items of the scales, a predominant effect on attention and executive functions emerges.
