We need better and more closely defined predictors to construct a reliable prediction score for complicated and recurrent CDI that is applicable in clinical practice.
And so the regulations begin to mount, the inspectors loom, and the actual results paid for become narrower and more closely defined.
The modern term Catholic Action (especially under Pius X and Pius XI) meant the organized general assistance by the laity in the mission of the church, yet, as it was more closely defined, the mission of the church was still entirely clerical, and lay action was accessory to the mission proper.
The Israelis insisted that both the scope and the duration of the time-out be more closely defined.
He argued it should be more closely defined to bribery or kickbacks.
This is a world in which gender roles are much more closely defined, in which people suddenly feel confident commenting on a woman's body – sometimes even touching it.
A sequence (from inner to outer parts of the sample) of radiocarbon dates on the sample gave a date shortly before 1600BC in agreement with (but more closely defined than) radiocarbon studies based on short-lived plant materials buried by the eruption at Akrotiri, or finds elsewhere associated with the eruption.
When cardiac intensive care patients are used, a more closely defined relationship is seen [ 9, 10].
Thus, there is a potential in better understanding transcriptome evolution if transcriptomes of more closely defined cell populations are analyzed.
Surveillance was more closely defined as "unstructured surveillance," which relies on clinical acumen as opposed to "structured surveillance" that screening experts define as use of periodic screening tools [ 12].
While the present work confirms abnormal cardiac sympathetic nervous signaling in sustained hyperglycemia, further research is warranted to more closely define the mechanism of this defect and its relation to diastolic dysfunction.
