Demographic entry was by ward clerk, on-admission severity scoring was by resident medical staff, and risk of death calculation and data cleaning was by senior attending medical staff.
The "what ifs" about Yemen are troubling, not least because they are a reminder the intelligence agencies have to make life-or-death calculations based on fragmentary evidence -- with catastrophic consequences if they're wrong.
The researchers expect these findings to illuminate future time-of-death calculations.
We classified the seasons of admission using the Office for National Statistics (ONS) classifications used for the excess winter deaths calculations.
When a Nassau County police officer confronted a gunman holding a college student hostage in her home on Friday night, he was forced, in an instant, to make a life-or-death calculation: Open fire and risk hitting the hostage, or hesitate and risk losing the hostage and being killed himself.
12 Death rate calculations might be influenced by other external conditions.
The two linear models recommended by the BEIR committee (1999) produce different numbers of attributable deaths: the calculations based on the EAD model yield 2,066 900% UI, 1,934 2,203) attributable deaths and those based on the EAC model 2,913 900% UI, 2,763 3,067).
Now, the focus is on what the law enforcement trainer Ron Borsch calls the "stopwatch of death" – the calculation that the sharply increased risks assumed by those first responders are outweighed by the knowledge that killers bent on creating maximum carnage will not stop killing until they are challenged and neutralized.
No data were available about the cause of death for calculation of patients' OS; hence, the reasons for an elevated death rate in the group of patients with an increased preoperative NLR remain elusive.
