Sentence examples for as a predictor of need from inspiring English sources

Only shoulder stiffness was identified as a predictor of need.

Although also a sparsely populated jurisdiction, New Zealand is a notable exception to the practice of linking health need to geographic status, choosing not to include rurality as a predictor of need in its formula.

Tuesday's results may be useless as a predictor of 2010, but they are not without value as cautionary tales.

With policy perhaps linked to relatively greater income inequalities [ 18] socio-economic circumstance as a predictor of health need is, by contrast, more influential in New Zealand, where an aggregate measure of deprivation forms one of four independent predictors of need [ 34].

Sher et al. [ 18] assessed the cost-effectiveness of PET/CT as a predictor of the need for adjuvant neck dissection (ND) compared with ND for all patients.

This study confirms the importance of the CD4+ count before initiation of antiretroviral therapy as a predictor of the need to reassume therapy during the 24 months following interruption of ART [ 8, 9].

In the late preterm and term neonate, lung ultrasound scan follows a reproducible pattern that parallels the respiratory status and can be used as a predictor of the need for respiratory support.

In fact, we are aware of few studies that have addressed level of cognitive functioning as a predictor of unmet needs.

Age, the most obvious criterion, has been adopted as a universal predictor of need due to a clear association with expenditure.

Overlapping but distinct from socio-economic factors [ 39, 40], the impact of ethnicity on health status is recognised as an independent predictor of need in only two of the formulae.

5 Moreover, the detection of sarcopenia and/or reduced muscle strength in these elderly is important as a predictor of morbidity risk and need for higher level care.