Of the total of 22 items, five items were already correctly reported in the pre-CONSORT era.
The total of all items in the auction is $663,000.
The total of 41 items reflects the magnitude and complications to become a process-oriented hospital.
Typically, PedsQL™ scores are reported as the total of all items in the scale, reflecting a summary measure of HRQOL.
Each final version of the TRC-e was composed of 33 items, eight of which were anchor items (24.2 % of the total number of items).
These booklets were linked by booklet 3, with about 50%% overlap from the total number of items (linking items).
We also confirmed that there is a strong correlation of the total score of these 3 items with the total of the 7 items score (unpublished data).
For other secondary efficacy measures, missing scores were imputed if the number of missing items was < 20% of the total number of items in the scale or subscale.
Table 1 shows Spearman rank correlation coefficients for each item with the total of the remaining items.
While the pattern of results is generally consistent across the items, the total number of items available for analysis was limited, creating concerns for content coverage.
