By assigning HCR diagnoses based on initial impressions especially in the context of these hospitals' brief inpatient observation periods, limited availability of diagnostic testing, and overburdened staff doctors make it easier for themselves to potentially dismiss important medical problems.
The corollary of this is that Ms. Coppola's direction is so breezily assured in its awareness of loneliness that the film could potentially be dismissed as self-consciously moody rather than registering as a mood piece.
However for both of these systems, these effects are small, and could potentially be dismissed as being insignificant.
However, another source of bias that the authors acknowledge, namely analyzing only all-cause mortality, cannot be dismissed as potentially hiding clinically meaningful differences in cause-specific mortality.
Again, differences in case mix between the groups cannot be entirely dismissed as potentially accounting for the survival differences observed but the effects are large and it would seem unlikely that could explain in full the variation seen.
Sequences shorter than 100 bp were excluded to dismiss potentially uninformative sequences.
While GPs should be cautious not to dismiss potentially significant symptoms or signs among patients they know well, it may be prudent for doctors to personally follow-up patients with 'low-risk but not no-risk' symptoms.
He sought Tuesday to fend off implications that he misled investors on a now-infamous April 13 conference call, when he dismissed reports of potentially risky trading in the credit markets as a "tempest in a teapot".
The potentially gigantic claim, which S&P dismissed as "frivolous and without merit", relates to the string of downgrades the rating agency issued on Italian debt when the eurozone crisis intensified in 2011.
Yesterday, a New York State judge dismissed those lawsuits, potentially throwing the case into the Court of Appeals.
