They took note of the length of each claim, any payments made, severity of the injury and the specialty practiced by the physician being sued.
If no attempt is made to take severity into account and include it in reporting, readers could get the impression that there was an equal burden of adverse events in each arm, when in fact all events in one arm might be severe and enduring while those in the other might be mild and transient.
To make the severity and likelihood scores comparable, the severity score was first divided by 2. To normalize the skewed distribution of the constructed risk perception variable, a square-root transformation was performed, which resulted in a measure of risk perception on a scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high) (14 ).
Components of IBS severity include symptom intensity, time of assessment, whether the patient or physician makes the severity determination, the type of scale used to measure severity, and the degree of disability or impairment.
'There could have been a riot.' The FA was prompt in issuing a statement last night which made the severity of the incidents clear and hinted at equally severe sanctions against Cantona.
This makes the severity of droughts worse.
Evidently inspired by the Fritzl and Kampusch cases, the movie is made with severity and purpose, though this could be a film that is telling us something we knew already.
I am prohibited from making the severity of sentences the index of my effectiveness".
No distinction was made between severity of cataract or type of cataract made by opticians, optometrists, and ophthalmologists.
However, in that study no adjustment was made for severity of illness or comorbidity, nor was stratification by disease attempted.
Furthermore, in studies that reported increased mortality in delirious patients, no proper adjustments were made for severity of illness during ICU admission.
