When we see systems as social institutions primarily defined by the people who constitute them and their human relationships, the ways of bringing about change in health systems go beyond altering written rules and distributing resources, and extend to managing these chains of relationships effectively.
27 AKI will be primarily defined as per recent guidelines as any of the following two criteria: (1) an increase in serum creatinine ≥26.5 μmol/L within 48 h of surgery or (2) an increase in serum creatinine ≥50% from baseline within 7 days of surgery.
It's certainly true that many of the moral heroes of the 20th century, as well as the movements they led, were primarily defined not by their heroic use of power and office, but by their inspired opposition to the powers that be--from Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Nelson Mandela.
"Quality," primarily defined as formal skill, is back in vogue, part and parcel of a conservative, some would say retrogressive, painting and drawing revival.
And do you ever doubt you can effectively move into a space that is primarily defined as a celebration of black masculinity.
Our ways of interacting with each other has evolved but our language hasn't so even if ask is primarily defined as a transactional process, it's no longer just that.
Patient-related outcomes of a network are primarily defined as the average improvement in psychosocial functioning that network-enrolled patients achieve.
To date, the role of Wip1 in the DDR has been primarily defined as that of a homeostatic regulator, given that Wip1 dephosphorylates DDR factors, including ATM, ATR, p53, Chk1, Chk2, UNG2, and H2AX, thereby restoring their activities to normal homeostatic levels after DNA damage repair.
Since cancer-related self-efficacy is primarily defined as the sense of control and involvement in the treatment and the active involvement of the patient in medical encounters, we also asked the patients about their perceived control over the disease and its possible recurrence.
The latter estimate was based on only two trials, which primarily defined remission as Hamilton score under a given value.
