Twenty-seven trials (70%) included some measure of severity in their case definition (eg low blood pressure, severe dehydration) and six trials excluded patients with severe cholera.
Several additional findings suggest that the Bedside PEWS is a good measure of severity of illness.
Incidents are also classified by a measure of severity called "risk rating" which ranges from minor to critical, and also includes a rating of "information".
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) reflected by small for gestational age (SGA) status is considered a measure of severity of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Each measure of severity was combined with a measure of frequency, creating four ecological threat indices, and transformed to a 0 100 scale.
The correlation between the OBC score and the comparison score was significant (r=-0.628 r=-0.628ting that the OBC providesuggestinglassificathat as well as a measure of severitheOBCthe providese.
Overlaying a 1 km resolution grid produced a surface representing how often a grid cell is hit by a hurricane and the associated wind speed, a measure of severity.
The aim of this study is to assess whether DSM-IV cannabis dependence (including withdrawal) and abuse criteria fit a linear measure of severity and whether a consumption criterion adds linearly to severity.
CONCLUSIONS Jitter is a sensitive measure of severity in MG and has a potential role as a biomarker in clinical trials and the clinic.
The continuous measure of severity of migraine headache was modelled using mixed model trajectory analysis (MMTA), a form of hierarchical linear modeling.
Since the GCS can suffer from ceiling effect, we repeated the analysis above using NIHSS as a measure of severity of stroke.
