Sentence examples for non-specific definition from inspiring English sources

To maximise the general relevance of our review, we started from the non-specific definition that empathy is an attribute related to the understanding and communication of emotions in a way that patients value.

In the previous issue of Critical Care, Ware and colleagues describe a clinical study using multiple host biomarkers to aid diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a particular complication of sepsis which is often under-diagnosed because of the difficulties in applying a non-specific definition of disease [ 1].

The use of non-specific definitions of insufficient milk supply likely lead to important misclassification of the exposure.

However, for several trials changes were difficult to classify due to the wording and non-specific definitions.

Although broad, non-specific definitions of "related" and "unanticipated" adverse events appeared in confidential Medtronic protocols, it is not clear how these definitions were operationalised and the meaning of these terms was not given in any publication.

8 The reports suggesting an increased cardiovascular risk from varenicline are based on limited data; while the randomised trial of patients with cardiovascular disease was underpowered to detect specific cardiovascular events 3 and the meta-analysis was a post hoc analysis of efficacy trials and relied on a broad non-specific definitions of cardiovascular events.

Some participants were confident they could rule out HeV, and the related risks, on clinical examination alone despite HeV having a non-specific case definition.

The second important limitation of the study is a non-specific case definition that depended on the memories of the producers.

This could be a consequence of non-differential misclassification due to the non-specific case definition; alternatively, local spread may have been only one component of disease transmission, or perhaps that apparent local spread was confounded by clustering of farms under the same ownerships in the same geographical area.

Although efficacy against severe disease is desirable, the relatively sensitive but non-specific case definition in our study may have allowed for the inclusion of respiratory illness caused by mixed infections in which influenza viruses may have been minor or coincidental.

Further, diagnosis-related difficulties for asthma stemming from the lack of a definitive clinical test and issues with consistency across health practitioners to non-specific case definitions may result in inaccurate identification of cases [ 19, 65].