Sentence examples for minimum severity of from inspiring English sources

All patients met the following inclusion criteria: (1) class II division 1 malocclusion with bilateral class II molar relationship (with a minimum severity of one-half class II molar relationship), (2) no craniofacial syndromes or systemic diseases, (3) no tooth agenesis or missing permanent teeth, and (4) mandibular arch showing minimal or no crowding.

Ninety two cross bred sheep with a minimum severity of lameness of score 2, i.e. visible nodding of the head and irregular stride but weight bearing on all four feet [ 12] and with active footrot (a characteristic smell, inflammation of the interdigital space and possibly under-running of hoof horn) were recruited into the trial.

Seven hundred and eleven patients aged between 18 and 65 years, who were suffering from major depressive disorder (n =698) or bipolar II depression (n =13) according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), 34 with a minimum severity score of 22 in the 17 item HAM-D (HAM-D17) 35 were treated with agomelatine, paroxetine, or placebo.

We did analyze the effects of the exclusion criteria 'current or past abuse or dependence on alcohol and/or drugs', 'not meeting a minimum severity threshold' and 'previous use of medication or ECT' on outcome.

There is no nonarbitrary way to locate either the end points of maximum and minimum severity defining the penalty schedule or the intervals between adjacent punishments (Pincoffs 1977).

In the group of all 598 depressed patients, patients with a baseline severity ≥ 14 on the HAM-D-17 had 7.23 points (95% CI 5.31-9.14 p<0.001) more improvement on the MADRS than patients meeting the exclusion criterion of 'not meeting minimum severity threshold'.

For patients receiving psychotherapy only, the largest percentage (30.8%) would be excluded because of the criterion 'not meeting minimum severity'.

The selection may influence outcome, for example, by increasing the average size of improvement by requiring a minimum severity or by excluding difficult-to-treat patients.

For the subsample of psychotherapy patients, the joint analysis of exclusion criteria showed no associations with the exclusion criterion 'not meeting minimum severity threshold'.

A minimum stenosis severity of 30% is adopted for FFR measurement in our study because visual assessment of the angiogram may underestimate stenosis severity.

Furthermore, the enrolment of both male and female subjects and patients with mild symptoms, due to the lack of a minimum requirement for the severity of abdominal discomfort/pain or duration of disease in the inclusion criteria, may have contributed to the high placebo response.