Sentence examples for attributable to a case from inspiring English sources

Utilities, preference-based quality-of-life measures ranging from 0 to 1, were incorporated by assigning a quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) decrement for each pneumococcal disease episode, as described previously [ 22].Lifetime costs and consequences (including life-years lost and permanent disabilities) attributable to a case of IPD were discounted to present value at an annual rate of 3%.

The slow start, many reckon, is attributable to a severe case of cold feet.

The proportion of Dutch secondary cases attributable to a non-Dutch source case declined steeply with age, both among all Dutch secondary case-patients (χtrend 41, p < 0.001) and among those arising within 2 years of the start of the cluster (χtrend 27, p < 0.001) (Table 3).

In clusters starting in the period 1995 2000, an increasing proportion of Dutch secondary TB cases was attributable to a non-Dutch source case as time progressed (χtrend 4.49, p = 0.03) (Table 3).

Prevalence-based COI studies determine the direct cost and production losses attributable to all cases in a given year while incidence-based COI studies estimate the present value of the lifetime costs of an illness from onset to conclusion for cases first diagnosed within the study year.

The numbers of cases attributable to A in the study and the SHCs are calculated directly from AF and the numbers of cases, since we observe MCC and take MSHC as the number of cases presenting at the SHCs who are eligible for the study.

In June of 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, and by July, New York City's New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) experienced a heavy burden of cases, attributable to a novel strain of the virus (H1N1pdm).

The estimated annual number of MSD cases in the population during the 3-year case/control study period is Mpop = MSHC/(3r), and the estimated annual number of cases attributable to A is AF × Mpop = AF × MSHC/(3r).

This finding may have been attributable to a higher education level amongst cases, which is associated with a greater tendency to be circumcised [ 34– 36] and to undergo screening for prostate cancer by, either PSA screening and/or DRE [ 37].

In calculating the cancer cases attributable to a deficient intake of dietary fruit and vegetables, the increased consumption that would have been necessary to achieve the '5-a-day' target (equivalent to 400 g of fruit and vegetable intake daily) was estimated.

Spina bifida is a type of birth defect in which one or more of the vertebrae of the spinal column fail to develop properly, and 75% of all cases are attributable to a folate deficiency during the first few weeks of pregnancy.