Sentence examples for a harm of a from inspiring English sources

For example, causing a harm of a certain magnitude to a paradigmatic person is morally worse than causing a harm of the same magnitude to a merely sentient animal, even setting aside the fact that the harm to the paradigmatic person might well cause additional negative effects not caused by inflicting the same harm on a merely sentient animal (Harman 2003).

"As a result, the harm of a single layoff can be multiplied, as a cascading process of 'bumping' begins," said a February study by Education Trust-West, a nonprofit group, that was critical of Californonprofitiority-based layoff policies.

Each woman deserves to be given the choice by her medical team: Is she willing to accept the "harm of a false positive" in order to avoid or minimize the very real and devastating harm of missing an early diagnosis of a potentially life-threatening cancer?

29 The net benefit is obtained by subtracting the proportion of patients who are false positive from the proportion who are true positive, weighting by the relative harm of a false-positive and a false-negative result.

This method estimates the "net benefit" of using a prediction model by summing the benefits (true positives) and subtracting the harms (false positives), where the latter is weighted by a factor related to the relative harm of a missed cancer compared to an unnecessary biopsy.

The crucial aspect of decision curve analysis is the choice of the threshold p t, which may be viewed as a potential limitation of the method since it can be difficult to quantify the consequences of a misclassification (the harms of being a false positive or a false negative).

The CPTT found a physician who reported a harm rate of 15.1% of admissions during a validation study across six paediatric hospitals in Canada.

For example, a harm rate of 10 incidents/100patients/year with a 95% confidence interval (CI) of 8 12 could also be expressed as 10 ±2.

Finally, Figure  5 (see also Additional file  1: Figure A.8 and Table A.7) provides empirical powers if the treatment has a beneficial effect on the risk of CD, but at a cost of a harm in terms of NCD hazard.

According to such a threshold notion of harm an action harms a person only if, as a consequence of that action, the (then existing) person falls below a normatively defined threshold (see McMahan 1998, 223 29; Shiffrin 1999).

In consultations in which the patient initiated the discussion of a harm, a median of two more benefits/harms were addressed compared to consultations with more passive patients (median=8 vs 6, P<0.05).