Sentence examples for adjust for illness from inspiring English sources

Third, due to the retrospective nature of this study we used the APACHE II model to adjust for illness severity.

The Iezzoni chronic condition count and the Charlson comorbidity index were developed primarily to control for risk in observational studies of health outcomes and are now used to adjust for illness in public reports of hospital mortality.

Adjusted for illness severity, the odds for hospital mortality of critically ill patients treated after AWARE implementation were reduced by half (odds ratio 0.45, 95% confidence interval 0.30 to 0.70).

Using the visit corrected HCC, poverty, and the population health indices for adjusting for illness resulted in estimated spending that was similar to adjustment by age, sex, race, and price adjustment alone: spending in the highest visit fifth was 33%to35%5% greater than in the lowest fifth.

The amount spent on Medicare enrollees in Miami is more than twice as high, per capita and adjusted for illness, price and other factors, as the amount spent on their equivalents in Minneapolis which means that the taxpayers of frugal Minneapolis end up subsidising the cosseted senior citizens of Miami.

Data were adjusted for illness severity (SAPS 1), fluid balance, ICU type, age, gender and major comorbidities.

Another retrospective analysis of 12,108 patients found no association between PaO2 deciles or hyperoxemia defined as PaO2 >309 mmHg and mortality adjusted for illness severity [140].

Outcomes were adjusted for illness severity using the Acute Physiology Score.

Both early hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia were associated with mortality, even after adjusting for illness severity.

However, after adjusting for illness severity in multivariate analysis, no association between hyperoxemia and outcome was noted.

All differences were more pronounced when we adjusted for illness composition and when we controlled for the baseline characteristics from tables 1 and 2 (available on request).