As a result, we cannot determine with certainty to what extent the caretakers reporting of these signs lacks specificity as a gauge of diarrheal severity or goes unrecognized as a trigger for seeking care.
Being able to identify learning disabilities, both as specific conditions (e.g. Down's Syndrome) and as a gauge of the severity of impairment (e.g. scale of mild to profound learning disabilities), would support tailoring of services specific to patient needs, as well as potentially identifying unusual clusters.
Here the World Health Organisation employ a panel of doctors to gauge the severity of each condition, physical and mental9.
It is often difficult to diagnose and gauge the severity of many of these conditions reliably.
Nevertheless, adult sickle cell providers seeing a patient for the first time ask that patient a set of questions to gauge the severity of his or her disease.
Clinicians generally assess the daily change in sCr and change over the duration of the episode to gauge the severity of AKI at any time point.
The team warned that the world is still in the very early stages of gauging the severity of H7N9.
While I wouldn't want to downplay the significance of the struggle of the Egyptian people, it is sometimes hard to gauge the severity of certain political situations here.
Fire rescue workers are routinely trained to gauge the severity of burns and when they see evidence of inhalation burns, to keep the patient's airway open, because swelling can quickly close it.
To gauge the severity of the problem, marine conservation biologist Andy Read of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, tabulated estimates of fishing-related cetacean deaths reported by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service from 1990 to 1999.
