Hence a Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire CLDQ) has been used to assess patients and is superior in measuring deterioration of QOL in patients with severe liver disease and CHC.
For this reason, longitudinal clerkships are often considered to be superior to traditional clerkships in measures of patient and student satisfaction because they are better suited for patient-centered communication and care [ 18– 20].
The responders were randomly assigned: after 3 weeks, tramadol was superior to placebo in the reduction of pain but not in measures of HRQOL [ 30].
Our main finding was that measures of central adiposity were, in general, not superior to measures of overall obesity in predicting diabetes.
A RCT found that short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy was as effective as CBT in improving anxiety scores, but CBT was superior on measures of worry and depression [ 537].
IRT thresholds (Table 5 theta < 0) and location estimates (peak in the negative zone) suggest superior accuracy in measuring mental health of individuals with below average levels of the domains General coping, Personal growth and autonomy, Spirituality, Interpersonal skills, and Emotional support.
Given that leanness is more prevalent in Asian populations than in Western populations, additional research using superior measures of amount and distribution of body fat are needed.
A quarter of a century has passed since the first descriptions of similarity searching [10, 11], but it has still not proved possible to identify some single similarity method that is consistently superior (in terms of quantitative measures of screening effectiveness such as enrichment factor or cumulative recall) to the many others that have been developed over the years [7, 12, 13].
Erlotinib was slightly superior to gefitinib in all measures of response, although the differences were not statistically significant.
The results showed that the day planner metaphor was proved superior in terms of the objective measures, i.e., the number of clicks, task completion time, and the number of errors.
