30 The choice of severity-of-illness tool is important.
A brief review of the role and choice of severity-of-illness scores would be useful.
Third, the VAS is continuous between 0 and 100, whereas the classification scheme offers only three choices of severity.
Published studies differ in their settings (ICU, medical wards, surgical wards), choice of patient population, severity of illness, hospital infection control measures, and study design.
While there is often no need for invasive monitoring using central venous pressure (CVP) in pediatric patients presenting with dehydration, measurement of CVP until recently had been the invasive measure of choice to determine severity of volume depletion for patients with undifferentiated shock.
As suggested, the majority of these studies are biased by choice of PCT assay used, severity of illness, focus, and cause of infection, and particularly, by the lack of a reliable gold standard that separates sepsis from noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) [ 6].
Spectroscopy and videomicroscopy focus our attention on perfusion and tissue oxygenation, which it is not possible to separate during the evaluation of severity, of therapeutic choice and of the treatment response of severe sepsis.
This result is useful for the evaluation of severity and the choice of a personalized therapy.
The frequency of clinical review will depend on patient choice, severity of symptoms and clinical discretion.
Diabetes duration and severity and choice of anti-diabetic medication are inextricably linked and anti-diabetic drug use patterns are associated with diabetes severity and length of diabetes history; thus any differences in estimates between different exposure categories may be explained by the duration and severity of diabetes.
