Validity analyses in both the RA and the OA group showed that patient designation of an area as a problem or as a priority for improvement was significantly associated with a poorer AIMS2 score in that area.
For example, there are living wills, medical powers of attorney, health care proxies (or directives), do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, and patient advocate designations, among others.
We designed a postal survey to assess the use of Flammacerium countrywide and whether its 'named patient only' designation causes problems in treating burns patients.
Recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) class was not included in this analysis due to the small number of patients with designations other than class II.
Still, within such EDs there remains a tendency for the sickest patients ("red designation"—those needing immediate resuscitation and/or surgical interventions) to be treated by specialists rather than emergency care physicians very early and/or to bypass the geographic ED altogether.
Patient two-letter designations used throughout this study were generated randomly as shorthand used by technicians who performed the studies so as not to have any correlation to patient information.
WGCNA* patient mortality group designations are compared with WGCNA and the COX definition, where diagonal elements indicate the number matches.
Sentinel surveillance sites each maintained a database of their patients and patient isolate genotype designations in Epi-Info 6.04d software (case file) (11).
The information obtained was categorised into: (a) where the incident took place, (b) type of incident, (c) written description of events, (d) outcome (potential or actual harm to the patient) and (e) designation of the staff member reporting the incident.
