The phrase "acuity problems" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing issues related to sharpness or clarity, often in the context of vision or cognitive function.
Example: "The patient reported experiencing acuity problems, making it difficult for them to read small print."
Alternatives: "vision issues" or "clarity difficulties".
However, the assessment and care of lower acuity problems is an important part of overall medical education, not just emergency medicine education, and this information could be used in developing part of the curriculum for an entire ED rotation.
The inability to correctly interpret this might be due to improper training, absence or lack of training (as some of the health workers were posted to the health centers after the introduction of RDTs), or visual acuity problems.
Although health systems factors were not evaluated, during the study, the main referral facility for children with visual acuity problems experienced intermittent closures.
Rapid response teams (RRT) are used to prevent adverse events in patients with acute clinical deterioration, and to save costs of unnecessary transfer in patients with lower-acuity problems.
Increased use of the ED for low-acuity problems predisposing to febrile seizure, such as otitis media, is not a plausible explanation for our findings, because: (a) seizure is certainly not a "primary care" type of complaint and (b) inclusion of "any low-risk diagnosis" in our controlled models did not change the findings (see "Methods" section).
Emergency rooms and urgent care centers can focus only on the most acute problem at the time, with little follow-up, while so-called "retail clinics" for walk-in care are limited to non-emergency and low-acuity problems.
In many provinces there are no existing regulations governing exposure of pregnant women to organic solvents, a state of affairs that she finds very troubling given that her research shows solvent-exposed children have poorer visual acuity and problems with colour vision compared with control groups.
In children, refractive errors can cause decreased visual acuity and problems in binocularity such as strabismus.
Additionally, research increases one's mental acuity and problem-solving capabilities.
Other variables that were plausible confounders were age, medical acuity of presenting problem, sex, number of times attending the practice in the previous 3 months, number of problems, number of chronic disease registers, and socioeconomic deprivation.
Another reason frequently mentioned was 'perceived medical necessity' (492 times, 27%): the perceived severity or acuity of the problem ('too sick to go elsewhere'emergentgent condition') or the expectation that an X-ray was necessary.
