Patients were divided into three initial severity groupings (moderate, moderately severe or severe) on the basis of published norms (Kroenke et al., 2001).
Outcome measures A geriatrician blinded to group assignment classified falls into one of three categories (no consequence, moderate, severe) based on physical damage and medical care.
In March 2003, a bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome was diagnosed by electrophysiologic testing (moderate-severe on the right, moderate on the left).
The assignment of a patient to a severity grade (Mild, Moderate, Severe) was based on the distribution of the sample for the corresponding measure (Table 1).
However, impairment usually is summarized as mild, moderate, severe, or profound, on the basis of an average of the hearing threshold levels.
It yields a depression severity score (0 to 27) and a diagnostic category (minimal to none, mild, moderate, moderate severe, severe) mapping on to the 9 DSM-IV.
Baseline heartburn severity (i.e., none/minor, mild, moderate, severe) was defined based on their level of heartburn symptoms.
Symptoms should be moderate to severe on a four-point, Likert-type symptom severity scale (0 = no symptoms; 1 = mild; 2 = moderate; 3 = severe).
Pain intensity following TME has been extensively evaluated and shown to produce moderate-to-severe on-going pain between 3 and 5 hrs following surgery [Barden et al., 2004].
Headache intensity was moderate or severe in 88.2% of participants; we graded "mild", "moderate" and "severe" on a scale 1 3, treated these values as continuous data and derived a mean intensity of 2.1 ± 0.6.
In addition, physicians were asked to classify the severity of patients' GERD symptoms as mild, moderate or severe, on the basis of their own judgement.
