Many clinical indicators are suggestive and should prompt the clinician to undertake further investigations.
As the database was charge-based, many clinical indicators such as laboratory values, patient weights, and fluid intake/output were not available.
However, this limited the search terms that could be used in the algorithm; many clinical indicators used in other disease specific prognostic tools and palliative care identification tools did not exist as Read codes in the patient records or had not been entered consistently in a searchable way.
There are many other clinical indicators that nutrition, energy balance and metabolic status are perturbed in large numbers of individuals in 'Westernized' societies.
We analyzed the performance of procedures, many clinical, metabolic, and therapeutic indicators of quality of care, the rate of resource utilization and associated costs before (baseline) and at 1 and 3 years after implementation of the DPO.
Background: Once Ambulatory Surgery (AS) has been demonstrated to be an effective alternative to hospitalisation for many surgical patients, it is necessary to establish clinical indicators to evaluate objectively the quality of care that is being given.
Many practices exceeded the threshold for maximum incentive payments in clinical indicators, and in these situations the GMS contract does not reward further improvement in the quality of care.
The gold standard for diagnosing sepsis is now still blood culture, even though, in many cases, blood cultures are negative in the face of strong clinical indicators of sepsis [ 31].
[ 46, 52] Hence, it is the current belief of many clinical trial neuro-oncologists that PFS is a much better indicator of treatment efficacy than the response rate.
In fact, in many cases, physicians usually decide whether or not to treat with immunosuppression depending on clinical indicators such as heavy proteinuria or rapid deterioration of kidney function.
Histological observations were in accordance with the clinical indicators.
