Sentence examples for general severity from inspiring English sources
Lastly, our general severity scores were generated over the first 24 hours of enrollment, whereas LIS was calculated on the day of ARDS diagnosis.
The ARDS and controls had similar general severity scores (SAPS II and SOFA).
Decision to transfuse seemed associated with the general severity status of the patient and with the hemoglobin level.
Therefore, improved test characteristics in the general severity scores compared to LIS may have been an underestimate of this difference.
In the Brasfield score [11], large lesions and general severity are given the highest weightings, while bronchiectasis and mucus plugging are given comparatively low weightings.
"System specific score components" refer to general severity in the Brasfield score [11], and special findings and perfusion size in the MRI score [9].
We compared LIS and Berlin level of severity to two well-validated, general severity of illness scores: (1) Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, [21] and (2) Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II [22].
The progressive nature of polyQ-mediated toxicity, protein aggregation and general severity of phenotype demonstrated in these models is age- and polyQ-tract-length-dependent, recapitulating critical aspects of polyglutamine expansion diseases in patients.
Our approach allows identification of discrete regions associated with individual language functions while controlling for general severity-based neural correlates.
The aim of this review is to evaluate the performance of the general severity-of-illness scores (APACHE II and III, SAPS II, MPM II) and the specific oncological scoring systems in cancer patients requiring admission to the ICU.
General severity-of-illness models can be inaccurate when applied to specific groups of patients, even if they are valid for comparing outcomes in large numbers of patients [ 3], and the inaccuracy of these models makes them inappropriate for predicting individual outcome [ 4, 5].
