Table 3.

Observations Related to Incomplete Data Sets

Type of Observation	No. of Cases	Description
Procedure related	25	No TT reading was available at the time the ET and ET readings were taken because the ThermoSENSOR either was inadvertently not attached to the patient or was already removed from the patient. Most of these cases happened after the second measurement but before the third measurement.
Procedure related	9	No TT reading was available because the sensor was not given sufficient time to warm up to body temperature. Most of these cases occurred during the first measurement.
Patient related	2	Only one complete set of readings was available because the patient was discharged or transferred to another ward after the first measurement.
Patient related	1	Only two measurements were made because the patient was discharged before the third measurement was performed.
Patient related	1	Only two measurements were made because the patient removed the sensor after the second measurement and refused to have it put back.
Patient related	1	The AT reading for the third measurement was not available because the patient refused to have it taken after the ET reading was taken.
Patient related	1	Only one set of ET and AT readings was available because the patient refused to have the sensor attached to his abdomen.
Patient related	2	The sensor was removed after the patient complained of itchiness. For one patient, one set of ET and AT readings was taken. For the other patient, no readings were taken.
Signal reception	4	No TT reading was available because the receiver failed to receive readings from the sensor.
Signal reception	1	The TT reading for a measurement was excluded from analysis because the first stabilized reading occurred 5.2 minutes after the measurement start time; the analysis included only TT readings that occurred within 5 minutes of the measurement start time.
Signal reception	1	No TT reading was available for the first measurement because of a technical problem with the signal receiver.
Computer related	3	The TT reading was not available because the data file, for some unknown reason, became corrupted during analysis and no backup of the file was available.