Clinical symptoms indicating the severity of diarrhea, such as fever, dry mouth, sunken eyes, lethargy, vomiting, and wrinkled skin, were better perceived as important signs of dehydration by mothers who sought care in univariate analysis, although only fever, lethargy, and frequent stooling remained significant in the multivariate model.
He reckons that it is better perceived as a symbiont that is sometimes helpful and sometimes harmful.
The direction in the mean QLQ-C30 change scores were aligned with the perceived change reported on the SSQ among MED/RAD patients; the mean QLQ-C30 score changes increased, from negative to positive, as corresponding SSQ ratings indicating better perceived change.
We do not have a convincing explanation for the relationship between education and responsiveness, particularly when considering that in inpatient care, those with an intermediate level of education perceive responsiveness worse than in outpatient care where it is perceived as better.
Compared to hearing a lecture or reading relevant literature, VP was perceived as better.
During the course of their depression, individuals want to go back to their past when things were perceived as better.
HIV+ males who suffered an opiate overdose or had psychiatric care in the last 12 months perceived their health as poorer, while those who had ever been in methadone treatment in the last 12 months perceived it as better.
Getting customers to pay is easier if the product is somehow better — or perceived as being better — than what they had received free.
Such patterns of hierarchical classifications (medicine formulations with drips being perceived as better than injections and injections being perceived as better than syrups) have been described elsewhere.
Institutions are described as norms, values, rewards, and incentive structures that may determine the organisation of research financing, the way research priorities are set, and whether knowledge is perceived as 'good' knowledge or not (scientific knowledge is often perceived as better knowledge) [ 5, 7, 36].
