Sentence examples for burden as a proxy from inspiring English sources

We performed sensitivity analyses by analysing rates of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia in the crude (unmatched) populations and by dividing the matched cohorts into quarters based on the baseline propensity score, denoted as low (first quarter), medium (second quarter), high (third quarter), and very high (fourth quarter) disease burden as a proxy for severity.

A natural objection to using under-five deaths, as well as other measures of the burden of disease, as a proxy for the need for health workers is that a high burden of disease may be caused by a low number of health workers [ 3].

Note, though, that flea burden may be acting as a proxy for the abundances of a range of gerbil 'predators' with which flea burden is positively correlated, rather than the fleas alone having a direct effect on gerbil abundance.

This allowed us to examine the extent to which drug burden represented solely a proxy for severity, as well as potentially improving discrimination.

We explore two methods to estimate this burden using mesothelioma deaths as a proxy for asbestos exposure.

Because baseline Diabetes-39 quality of life scores were not available, baseline burden of illness served as a proxy for baseline quality of life.

Although larvae are rarely infected with B. burgdorferi sensu lato, the more numerous larval burdens were found to be significantly correlated with nymphal burdens and thus act as a proxy for exposure to B. burgdorferi sensu lato (Wilcoxon signed rank test; P = 0.001).

It is therefore unlikely that illness burden is a proxy measure of SRH.

Hence, the drug burden index can be seen as a proxy of drug therapy risk and medication safety.

The results were adjusted for age, sex, number of drugs (as a proxy for burden of disease), cognition (defined as impaired including dementia or not), and residence (defined as nursing home or not).

Baseline burden of illness, a proxy for baseline quality of life, predicted overall quality of life as well as all subscales of the Diabetes-39, as expected.