Equity is embedded in consideration of disease severity in prioritization of healthcare interventions.
Second, until about a decade ago, disease severity was the only prioritization criterion whereas effect and cost-effectiveness are recently introduced criteria implying that clinicians have less experience with assessing such dimensions.
Clinicians at Norwegian community mental health centres assess referrals from general practitioners and classify them into three priority groups (high priority, low priority, and refusal) according to need where need is defined by three prioritization criteria (severity, effect, and cost-effectiveness).
Whole body computed tomography (WBCT) in the multiply injured patient is a valuable tool that can be used to assess the severity of trauma and determine prioritization in the course of treatment [ 1].
One important indicator is the epidemic's infection rate, which is crucial to quantify overall morbidity and to obtain an accurate denominator for calculating complication and mortality rates used to classify severity; the latter, in turn, guides prioritization of interventions for mitigating epidemic severity.
The needs of risk assessment are context-dependent and can vary from simple classification of a substance for hazard (e.g., is it genotoxic or not) to prioritization by the nature and severity of hazard for further investigation to quantitative estimates of risk to determine the urgency and nature of any risk-management action.
A natural question now becomes whether the raters' perception of severity, as defined in the national guidelines of prioritization, can be meaningfully "translated" into GAF scores.
Prioritization Does the resident appropriately prioritize tasks?
The prioritization of problem is also related to severity assessments.
Thus, prioritization of intervention areas based on the severity and risks of soil erosion is imperative.
In 1987, the government convened a commission to set forth criteria for prioritization [ 25- 27] that proposed "severity of disease" as the only criterion.
