Sentence examples for model for illness from inspiring English sources

The multiple linear regression model for illness episodes resulted in a β-coefficient of 0.46 (SE 0.13) for the natural logarithm of endotoxin (p = 0.0003), which means that each 1.0 unit increase in the natural logarithm of airborne endotoxin concentration was associated with 0.46 more illness episodes per year.

Recent studies for other medical applications have used electronic medical records data to establish predictive models for illness severity in various disease domains, including preterm infants (Saria et al. 2010), congestive heart failure (Sun et al. 2012), septic shock (Paxton et al. 2013) and HIV (Zazzi et al. 2011).

In a separate analysis, we also adjusted the models for illness severity using the initial severity of illness score that was routinely calculated in each institution.

Some patients may feel that they and their physicians have quite different explanatory models for illness, and they may be concerned that the physician will find their personal and cultural explanations for illness to be unacceptable (Charon 2001; Ashton et al 2003).

The association between SMD and having previous contact with a traditional healer can be regarded as a form of health-seeking behavior for mental illness, a health seeking behavior that is in agreement with the predominant spiritual explanatory model for mental illness [ 4, 13, 14].

But not everyone is impressed with the idea of a biological model for mental illness.

General systems theory offers an intuitively appealing model for understanding illness presenting in primary care.

Interestingly, the genes in module orange like Egr1, FOS and JUN that are associated with oxidative stress response were found upregulated in muscle in response to mechanical ventilation and immobilization in a porcine model for critical illness myopathy (CIM) [ 61, 62].

Furthermore, subjects will receive a patient-centered motivational intervention by an experienced nurse counsellor focusing on: (1) risk communication based on self-regulation model of illness for cancer patients; (2) the stage-matched smoking cessation intervention (Table  1).

As a result, pediatric psychiatry will increasingly become the front end (the most important end) of a lifespan developmental model for mental illnesses.

Utilization of DISC1 genetically engineered mice served as a model for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, and analysis of these mice showed that dominant-negative DISC1 mice display behavioral abnormalities and a depression-like deficit [ 215].