The criteria are extremely strict, and only a tiny fraction of severely brain-injured people meet them.
However, study design, treatment protocols, follow-up periods, and inclusion and exclusion criteria are extremely variable.
For example, the aim of the World Economic Forum's "Gender Gap Index" is to provide "a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities around the world". While its benchmarks for national gender gaps on economic, political, educational, and health-based criteria are extremely valuable, it is essentially a compilation of the barriers to women's advancement.
Furthermore, we found that the other two criteria are extremely robust: random addition and deletion of up to 15% of the edges has no appreciable effect on the statistically significant ranges of cutoff values for all four networks (data not shown).
These might include defining subjects as being free from death and either ICU admission or additional organ failures, as ICU admission criteria are extremely variable.
To calculate the weights, the respondents judged each pair of decision criteria on a scale from 9 to 1 to 9, with the two extremes (score 9) indicating that the present criterion is extremely more important than the one it is compared to, and the middle of the scale (1) indicating equal importance.
It can be seen that this criterion is extremely useful in the clinical assessment of need for lipoatrophy correction, and may be a better indicator of treatment need than medical assessment procedures commonly used in clinical trials such as DEXA scan, bioimpedance or sonography.
One objective of these three studies was to predict high confidence candidate AltORFs, and the highly stringent criteria used were extremely pertinent in this matter.
However, this method has no standard criteria and is extremely time consuming.
