Sepsis is a highly dynamic, acute illness with a relatively high risk for progression to septic shock, organ failure, and death [ 2], despite adequate infection control and aggressive resuscitation [ 3].
Crislip provides a fresh and nuanced look at the contentious and dynamic theology of illness that emerged in and around the ascetic and monastic cultures of the later Roman world.
Finally, the use of dynamic markers of illness severity (such as daily changes in Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score) could have been useful to further interpret the association between ΔMPV and prognosis.
This pattern underscores the complex interpersonal dynamic of the illness experiences, illustrating that decisions, and diagnoses, do not exist in vacuums, and that numerous people can be affected.
Longitudinal qualitative research using multi-perspective, serial interviews offers advantages over the more usual single "snapshot" qualitative techniques in understanding patients' and family carers' evolving and dynamic experience of illness (box 1).
The scoring system in ICU should assess various degrees of organ dysfunction starting from normal function to organ failure; assessment of organ dysfunction needs to be based on simple, easy repeatable variables specific to the desired organ, readily available and able to reflect the dynamic changes of illness over time [ 2].
36 Furthermore, qualitative longitudinal research can provide deep insights into the dynamic experience of illness, and change can be detected, for example, in the context of time, when a story is retold and re-interpreted by the participant at later interviews.
Owing to the dynamic nature of illnesses, a patient's condition evolves over time.
Angelil may have started off as the svengali in the relationship but the dynamic shifted after his illness.
