Higher prevalence of multiple illnesses and cognitive impairment among older patients pose a risk of comprehension difficulties, potentially leading to medication errors.
Higher prevalence of multiple illnesses and transient or chronic cognitive impairment among older patients pose a risk of comprehension difficulties, which may lead to medication errors and unplanned readmissions.
The item with most frequent problems in interpretation was question 7: 'Have you had enough help and advice for your family to plan for the future?' for which 13 interviewees gave responses indicative of comprehension difficulties.
One can question the validity of this consent, in view of the comprehension difficulties that form part of phasic and cognitive disorders - even though aphasia was less severe in aphasic patients having given their consent directly (data not shown) [ 6, 7].
Letta said he had "comprehension" for the difficulties of Berlusconi and his lawmakers following Berlusconi's conviction last month for tax fraud, but it was vital that these should be "clearly separated" from the fate of his government.
One item on the fatigue subscale was removed after piloting because of difficulties in comprehension in United Kingdom English (not at all bushed to totally bushed), resulting in a final 17-item scale.
Furthermore, patients may have been provided with a choice, but may not have experienced it as such because of difficulties with the comprehension of information due to psychological distress (e.g. anxiety, depression) or specific coping strategies (e.g. denial).
Two subjects had to be excluded while recording TMS data, one because of a very high resting motor threshold (RMT) (> 80% machine output) and the second because of difficulties with task comprehension (reporting having not understood the task during the experiment).
The patients' good comprehension of requests and their difficulty expressing metapragmatic knowledge suggest that they differ from controls in how they "explain the world": their knowledge of the event sequence was not based on verbally expressible knowledge about the relationship between the structural characteristics of a request utterance and those of its social production context.
Exclusion criteria are the presence of metastasis or relapse, severe mental deterioration and comprehension difficulties of the Italian language.
It's fair to say that Greene has no real comprehension of the depth of the difficulties facing utilitarian theory.
