"whilst important" is a grammatically correct construction and can be used in written English.
It is often used to add emphasis or to provide further explanation to a statement. Here is an example: "Whilst important, grades are not the only factor considered in college admissions. Extracurricular activities and personal statements also play a significant role."
He added: "Whilst important for getting cash to relatively poor families, tax credits discourage people from earning more money by creating high effective marginal tax rates, leading to bunching around part-time work hours.
Given the severity of ICU patients' illness pain management, whilst important, may not be considered a priority and therefore can be easily overlooked.
Whilst important limitations are found, it is noted that the primary purpose of the GPI is to initiate debate on what sustainable welfare is and how societies might best maintain or increase it.
"There is a balance and another side to every concept and, when it comes to human rights, I have to say the right to privacy, whilst important, must be held in balance, must be held in tension with the other rights that Australians expect and should deserve to have protected by their government," Fawcett said.
The main reasons for this included limited facilities for hand hygiene and staff perceptions that hand hygiene, whilst important, was not necessarily required for all patients.
The size of a bone defect, whilst important, is not an absolute indication, and options for reconstruction of large diaphyseal bone defects include biologic and non-biologic materials.
It is likely that many of these patients will have significant reductions in quality of life, which whilst an important endpoint was outside the scope of this study.
This allows examination of product by assessor effects whilst accommodating important covariate information, for example, associated with the experimental design.
"Also, by presenting in New York, we showcase the collections to an international audience, whilst building important relationships with U.S. retailers — many of whom at that time didn't travel to London".
There are various surgical approaches to the knee joint and its surrounding structures, and such approaches are generally designed to allow the best access to an area of pathology whilst safeguarding important surrounding structures.
Therefore, strategies need to be employed as a pre-processing step to reduce the number of objects or measurements whilst retaining important information.
