Emergency workers hope the levees, a series of massive walls which surround low-lying areas of the city, will hold up against the storm surge and avert life-threatening flooding.
Over three quarters of abortion complications were moderate or severe and this calls for urgent and correct treatment to avert life-long complication and death.
In the absence of liver transplantation, the traditional treatment of late-stage, cirrhotic liver disease has generally involved symptomatic therapies to avert life-threatening complications, such as severe portal hypertension and hepatic encephalopathy.
Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) will be calculated for the primary outcome measure (i.e. cases of stunting prevented) and selected secondary and summary measures including cases of wasting prevented, cases of infant mortality averted, life-years saved and DALYs averted.
I arrived at the program's first ten-day residency in Maine with my cohorts, ranging from 22 to 86 years old, all excited to avert real life for a week and a half.
Researchers involved in the management of this case felt that they had a clear duty of care to this participant and that it was appropriate to use whatever project resources were required to avert a life threatening situation.
Avoided mortality was converted to DALYs by multiplying the number of deaths averted by life expectancy.
Deaths averted or life years gained, presented in 25% of papers, were the main outcome measures comparable across diseases and health interventions.
The most frequently presented final outcome measures were impact of an intervention on morbidity e.g. cases prevented (n = 23) and mortality e.g. deaths averted or life years gained (n = 8).
This approach is slightly more conservative than basing the threshold on DALYs averted as life years saved do not capture the non-financial benefits of reducing symptoms in non-fatal cases.
Despite this fact, we think that DALYs are a measure of the most relevant health outcomes than theoretically more objective measures, such as deaths averted or life years gained (not adjusted).
