Sentence examples for classifications of harm from inspiring English sources

Because governments formulate criminal and social policies based upon classifications of harm, a new study published by the Lancet on November 1st makes interesting reading.

Nurses determined the presence of an AE based on the presence of an injury and harm associated with healthcare management and then assigned a National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC-MERP) classification of harm for each event (table 1).

The principal author reviewed all classifications of self-harm variables and in the few cases (n = 6) with a discrepancy, a consensus was reached with the senior author.

Biases exist at several levels: reporting of harmful versus non-harmful events and correct classification of categories of harm.

Biases also exist at several levels: reporting of harmful versus non-harmful events and correct classification of categories of harm.

No classification of the severity of harm was feasible.

Several studies in the 1970s attempted to create classifications of people who self-harm [ 17, 18], but these efforts were not of great clinical value and were gradually abandoned.

In the context of harm outcomes, we awarded classifications for "high risk" outcome reporting bias when the specific harm had been measured but the data were presented or suppressed in a way that would mask the harm profile of particular interventions (including providing detail on the seriousness of the harms)—that is, P1, P2, R, and S classifications (table 1).

We developed a new classification system for the assessment of selective non-reporting of harm outcomes, and we demonstrate the application of this classification in two cohorts of systematic reviews to characterise the reasons for the non-reporting of harms data.

In 2007, Nutt et al 4 attempted to reassess the system of drug classification and produce a more contemporary hierarchy of harm.

The authors write: "Our findings lend support to previous work in the UK and the Netherlands, confirming that the present drug classification systems have little relation to the evidence of harm.