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Antonija Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Successful

Is the word 'successful' OK here?

The meaning of the underlined phrase is: a number of times when those who did the study managed to place the tube where they had planned

Calculation of a number of successful chest tube positions in relation to the total number of tube thoracostomy was performed.

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I think "successful" is OK; there are a couple of other grammatical errors, but even if those are fixed the sentence as a whole is not great IMO. " One further quibble: "calculated the number of times ... in relation to" seems a slightly vague and imprecise form of words for a scientific subject.

— Mr Wordy

  • I think "successful" is OK; there are a couple of other grammatical errors, but even if those are fixed the sentence as a whole is not great IMO.
  • " One further quibble: "calculated the number of times ...
  • in relation to" seems a slightly vague and imprecise form of words for a scientific subject.
  • If you're calculating a ratio, or percentage, of the total, then I think it would be better to explicitly say so.
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I think "successful" is OK; there are a couple of other grammatical errors, but even if those are fixed the sentence as a whole is not great IMO. If I've understood the meaning correctly, the following seems clearer to me:

"We calculated the number of times the chest tube was successfully placed in the intended position in relation to the total number of tube thoracostomies performed."
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Thank you Mr Wordy.
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Thank you Mr Wordy for your suggestions.
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