Sentence examples for measures of harm from inspiring English sources

Researchers led by Professor David Nutt, a former chief drugs adviser to the British government, asked drug-harm experts to rank 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society, such as damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime.

Prof Nutt co-authored a report published in medical journal the Lancet which ranks 20 drugs on 16 measures of harm to users and to wider society.

This, the authors wrote, suggests that autoimmunity might be among the most sensitive measures of harm caused by methoxychlor.

A particular benefit was in stimulating discussion on the purpose of different kinds of measures and activities, for instance separating measures of harm from information that identified vulnerabilities in the system and enabled learning.

5 In this paper, we report on the development of one such summary statistic, which aims to (unlike the currently used proxy measures of harm such as Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios) provide a more direct measure of safety.

Safety and exploratory outcomes include the measures of harm assessed by adverse events and measures of study engagements including attrition, adherence to intervention, and participation in co-interventions, respectively.

What is needed is the development of an intellectual base for deciding on the appropriate measures of harms and the threshold of these that should lead to a drug being considered for control.

Thus, the challenge to improve the safety of patients in hospitals remains and specific and sensitive measures of harms are needed to assess and monitor the effects of changes to make hospitals safer.

It's hard to criticise the findings of the judge, Sir Jonathan Baker, in this case: he allowed the child to stay with the surrogate, finding separation from the woman who was still breastfeeding her to be the greater measure of harm.

That tradition does not select a threshold measure of harm as a lower limit, in the case of harms certain to occur".

Next, we repeated the global measure of harm avoidance with trait subscores.