SAPS II score was the best severity indicator of mortality.
For each question, click on the circle that best describes the severity of your symptoms during the past 24 h.
Subjective measures, such as a cough-specific quality-of-life instruments, are likely to best reflect the severity of cough from the patient's standpoint, because a subjective response most likely integrates both cough frequency and intensity.
In this study, we found that adjusting for sex, age at first diagnosis, oral cancer subsite, and therapy regimen provided the best indicator of severity of oral cancer.
In the complex cascade of events after trauma, a large number of cytokines are involved (Cho et al. 2001, Knoferl et al. 2003), but IL-6 concentration appears to play the most important role and correlates best with the severity of thoracic trauma (Gebhard et al. 2000, Seitz et al. 2011).
Several cytokines (e.g. IL-6, TNF-a, and IL-10) are released systemically within the first few hours after trauma; IL-6 levels appear to correlate best with the severity of thoracic trauma (Knoferl et al. 2003, Liener et al. 2011, Seitz et al. 2011).
This study was designed to assess which hemodynamic index best accounts for clinical severity of aortic stenosis (AS) and to analyze the value of low-dose dobutamine testing.
We found that paw area was the best predictor of the severity of spontaneous OA in STR/Ort mice.
Experts at Micronutrient Initiative (MI) indicate that de-worming programs are best for reducing the severity of IDA but not for eliminating anemia in women or children.
Participants were instructed to use a rating scale that best corresponded to the severity of their sensitivity by checking a score of 1 to 3 points (not at all a problem, moderate symptoms, disabling symptoms) was to be marked by the subjects.
Since these results are corrected for parameters influencing treatment toxicity, this could suggest that patients with the best understanding of the severity of their disease are the most motivated and treatment-compliant, and thus also the ones most adherent to the dietary supplement.
