Sentences with phrase «percent of the comparison group»

When compared with patients who were cooled immediately after arrival in the emergency room, the patients who were chilled sooner fared worse: Twenty - six percent experienced a second cardiac arrest before reaching the hospital, compared with 21 percent of the comparison group.

If not, was their progress at least equal to the gain of 40 percent of the comparison group?

Not exact matches

The Dun & Bradstreet comparison group showed revenue growth of 6.2 percent.

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

By comparison, Americans averaged gifts of nearly 1.2 percent of their income to churches and religious groups from 2004 to 2008, according to Empty Tomb Inc., an Illinois - based research firm specializing in U.S. church - giving trends.

For example, one of the Gallup surveys mentioned earlier showed that 60 percent of the American public personally considered prayer to be very important and another 22 percent regarded it as fairly important; by comparison, only 39 percent thought that reading the Bible is very important, 38 percent thought that attending religious services is very important, and 28 percent thought that being part of a close religious fellowship group is very important.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

Twenty percent of the women who had lactation consultants only were frequently breastfeeding at three months, compared to 17 percent of those who got the consultant and electronic prompts and only 8 percent in the comparison group, Bonuck's team reports in the American Journal of Public Health.

The program to encourage breastfeeding seemed to work - by three months out, 43 percent of mothers who gave birth at intervention hospitals were still exclusively breastfeeding, compared to six percent of women in the comparison group.

By comparison, only 45 percent of the placebo group recorded a 50 percent or more reduction in depression, with only 10 percent reporting their depression had lifted completely.

Just under half of the Bajau carry the version of this gene that is associated with larger spleen, compared with 6 percent of the Saluan and 3 percent of Han Chinese (a population chosen for comparison because they are not closely related to either group), he says.

One year after surgery, 25 percent of patients in the intervention group said that they were no longer smoking, compared to eight percent in the comparison group.

About 9 percent of these test - tube babies had significant congenital defects — twice the number seen in a comparison group of 4,000 babies conceived traditionally.

The cumulative rate of bipolar spectrum disorders at age 21 was 23 percent in the high - risk group compared to 3.2 percent in the comparison group.

Of the 1,551 women with early - stage breast cancer who were randomized to the comparison group of the WHEL study, more than half (864, or 56 percent) were taking tamoxifen, and more than three - quarters of those (674, or 78 percent) reported hot flasheOf the 1,551 women with early - stage breast cancer who were randomized to the comparison group of the WHEL study, more than half (864, or 56 percent) were taking tamoxifen, and more than three - quarters of those (674, or 78 percent) reported hot flasheof the WHEL study, more than half (864, or 56 percent) were taking tamoxifen, and more than three - quarters of those (674, or 78 percent) reported hot flasheof those (674, or 78 percent) reported hot flashes.

By comparison, just 56 percent of those in the control group with the non-fever illness showed this response, the study said.

After a month of use, mothers» milk volume increased 33 percent compared to a 15 percent drop in two comparison groups, one of which was taking fenugreek.

The researchers concluded that each gram of chia seed in the white bread reduced postprandial glycemia by 2 percent, in comparison to the control group.

By comparison, heart disease progressed in 50 percent of the control group that did not use pomegranate juice.

In all of the following snapshot comparisons, I consider the group - to - group differences (i.e. margins or gaps) as significant if we can be 90 percent confident of the difference — based either on statistical t - tests for comparing means or statistical z - tests for comparing population proportions.

A percentile of 60 means that the average student in a district is achieving better than 59.9 percent of the students in our global comparison group.

That means that if we were to relocate Pelham to another developed country in our comparison group, the average student in Pelham would outperform 95 percent of the students in math.

A percentile ranking of 60, for example, indicates that the average student in a district performed better than 59.9 percent of students in the global comparison group.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

KIPP closed 21 percent of achievement gaps between its Hispanic students and the state's white students across the available comparisons, while on average, eligible CMOs on average closed 6 percent of achievement gaps between these groups in 2013.

TripAdvisor also plays a major role in safety concerns for women in both groups, but especially with Canadian women where 51 percent check the review site before booking in comparison to only 39 percent of American women.

Results indicate that after training, the mean percent correct score of the training group was similar to that of the nonhandicapped comparison mothers, with both significantly greater than the mean of the control group.

Group - meeting volume decreased by 2 percent in 2014, but much of the decline was due to a difficult comparison year — a strong 2013, when volume surged 8.6 percent, the report says.