Sentence examples for continuum of severity from inspiring English sources
Although there is a hierarchical continuum of severity across sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock, and multiple organ dysfunction [ 8], the presence of SIRS has no prognostic significance [ 9, 10], and the prognostic significance of bacteremia remains unclear.
Factors such as the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia have changed over time: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) currently guides physicians to diagnose schizophrenia along a continuum of severity, from the less severe delusional disorder to the more severe schizoaffective disorder [ 10].
1) Mental illness and substance abuse -- like physical illness occur along a continuum of severity from mild to severe and sadly sometimes even life threatening or life ending.
Recent findings [ 4, 24] support the view that measures of depression in adolescence are best implemented in a dimensional model, where depressive disorders are conceptualized as a continuum of severity, from mild to severe.
Neglect happens along a continuum of severity, from sporadic inattention to chronic understimulation to severe neglect in a family or in an institution.
However, the lack of a unidirectional pattern of onset of tension-type headache and migraine among people who exhibited both subtypes over time suggests that tension-type headache and migraine do not represent progressively more severe manifestations of the same underlying continuum of severity.
Results suggested that PTSD symptoms can be combined to assess a single dimension of PTSD severity, providing support for a continuum of symptom severity.
While the report expounds on the possibility of "two very different futures" — neither uplifting, but spanning a continuum of increasing severity — Mr. Kenney and Mr. Scheer are recklessly blazing a path toward unprecedented climate change.
Conclusions: These results, in the context of prior work showing increased risks of major depression and depressive symptoms following miscarriage, lend some support to the conceptualization of minor depressive disorder as part of a continuum of symptom severity.
