Sentence examples for confusion of methods from inspiring English sources

But he is in effect an embodiment of a wider confusion of methods.

March 2007 — Radioactive Seeds Measured Incorrectly A 31-year-old woman with vaginal cancer was overdosed because of confusion over the method of measuring the strength of radioactive seeds.

The major source of confusion in statistical methods related to the weighted kappa coefficient is the assignment of weights.

We estimated the incidence of delirium using the Confusion Assessment Methods for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) in a cohort of general ICU patients.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the confusion assessment method-ICU (CAM-ICU) and the effect of its use on frequency and duration of haloperidol use.

To determine the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU), a clinical assessment tool to detect delirium among Intensive Care Unit patients.

Before each administration of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit, the level of sedation/arousal was assessed using the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale [ 15].

Therefore, to avoid confusion of the most likely users of the method, we chose to still refer to our method as masked 'classification' with signal subtraction.

Postoperatively, patients were monitored for the occurrence of POD using the flowsheet version of the Confusion Assessment Method for Intensive Care Units (CAM-ICU-Flowsheet), which is explained in more detail elsewhere [ 20, 21].

2. Ely EW, Margolin R, Francis J, et al. Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU).

The results of this meta-analysis thus support the use of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit or the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist as screening tools for delirium in critically ill patients.