Sentence examples for harm balance from inspiring English sources

Targeting screening to men at higher polygenic risk could improve the benefit to harm balance of screening.

We propose that such multivariable tools can also be used to balance the benefits and harms of possible treatments since the benefit harm balance depends heavily on the patients' prognosis.

3 4 Although most COPD treatments are not prescribed to modify mortality risk, but to reduce exacerbations, and improve symptoms and quality of life, similar estimates for the benefit harm balance could be made for patients at low risk for exacerbations.

Using risk tools in clinical COPD research may also help to design clinical trials and to inform policy makers, regulatory agencies or guideline developers when estimating the benefit harm balance and to serve as a reference standard for risk prediction against which the additional value of various biomarkers to predict mortality could be assessed.

7 The US Food and Drug Administration FDAA) was satisfied of the positive benefit to harm balance of dabigatran but failed to identify a subgroup of patients in which the benefit-harm profile was superior for the 110 mg dose compared with the 150 mg dose and consequently approved only the higher dose.

Our data suggest that the ADO index classifies patients more correctly above or below certain risk thresholds than only FEV1, and this gain is especially relevant in subjects with very low and low risk of 3-year mortality where the benefit harm balance may be unfavourable.

Yet he stays aloof, in a sudden assertion of judicial deference, from the calculation of how those harms balance against the benefits of one-man-one-woman marriage:    Do the benefits of standing by the traditional definition of marriage make up for these costs?

The benefit-harm balance is probably favourable.

This may not yield a valid estimate of the uncertainty of the benefit-harm balance metric.

Thus, an individual assessment considering the outcome of the disclosure and its benefit-harm balance was preferred.

In light of the existing benefit-harm balance, we decided to systematically review the ethical issues related to the use of this technology by analyzing the published literature.