Such disease characteristics can undermine the effectiveness of a quarantine, by making it hard to identify everyone who has the disease, said Dr. Malik Peiris, the microbiologist leading SARS investigators at Hong Kong University.
Differences in disease and population characteristics may undermine the discrimination and calibration of predictive tools when applied to a different population.
On the other hand, this characteristic undermines the reuse to other systems, since there is not a formalization on higher level concepts.
And our participants' attempt to avoid social devaluation was amplified for men who eschewed the way in which chronic illness could undermine characteristics associated with hegemonic masculinity (e.g., toughness, invulnerability, independence; Courtenay, 2000).
Together, 100 women and four men joined a lively discussion to better understand the characteristics and behaviors that undermine women -- as well as addressing uncomfortable issues that both genders encounter in their daily lives.
However, further external validation of the current nomograms in other independent datasets, preferably from different countries or races, should be performed, as differences in population characteristics and treatment may undermine the accuracy and calibration of nomograms.
Tribal connections are not performance characteristics and therefore undermined a move toward a more performance-based and measurement oriented approach to management.
Clinical assessment should focus on four dimensions [ 80]: 1. Deficiencies and undermining characteristics of the person 2. Strengths and assets of the person 3. Lacks and destructive factors in the environment 4. Resource and opportunities in the environment Traditional clinical assessment practice - exemplified by the mental state assessment - focuses almost exclusively on dimension 1.
In summary, we found that a patient's municipality of residence does not play a prominent role in shaping his/her likelihood of death, leading to the conclusion that attention should be focused instead on the characteristics of patients that might undermine longevity.
Over a few weeks, these lesions break down to form characteristic ulcers with undermined edges, which are associated with extensive necrosis alongside minimal inflammatory response.
