Members of the medically important genus Echis exhibit considerable variation in venom composition, which has been demonstrated to co-evolve with evolutionary shifts in diet.
Although the HSRs can be medically managed, they can be of considerable concern to patients (Markham et al, 2000).
In a grounded theory investigation, senior intensive care staff at 16 Ontario intensive care units defined medically futile care as "the use of considerable resources without a reasonable hope that the patient might recover to a state of relative independence, or to be interactive with the environment"[ 2].
Though few in number, they take up considerable resources as they are usually medically quite complicated.
We conclude that serious clinical depression in medically ill older patients may persist for a considerable period after hospital discharge and neither detection nor current management strategies appear to have a major impact on outcome.
Based on these findings, medically effective obesity prevention and intervention programmes have considerable potential to reduce short- and long-term drug expenditures.
Verbal autopsies have gained considerable ground as an acceptable alternative to medically determined cause of death.
While we can grant that there will be considerable grey area between the categories of medically necessary and purely elective treatments, the differences between these two kinds of treatment have implications for whether patients are discharging their social responsibilities.
Consequently, there is considerable interest in leveraging the electronic medical record (EMR) for high-throughput phenotyping of diseases and medically relevant traits.
Clearly, the program was not successful for Lewis, which isn't surprising given that Narconon's program has garnered considerable controversy and its methods have been described as medically unsafe.
Considerable variations were identified in terms of the actual time (hour of day) the patient was determined medically fit; the range was from 9 a.m. to 1 30 p.m.
