Because sepsis forms the final common pathway of infectious disease mortality, a more pragmatic alternative for identification of children at high risk of mortality related to infectious disease may be justified.
There are known stages in the child's mastery of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics that permit identification of children who are not functioning in age-appropriate ways, as well as allow the design of appropriate educational goals and approaches for children of varying ages and expected linguistic abilities.
Pragmatic approaches to the identification of sarcopenia, which do not rely on resource intensive scanning or scarce reference data are required to characterise the burden of sarcopenia in a wide range of populations.
Rather, his defense of the pragmatic approach to a theory of knowledge or of truth gave pride of place to a pragmatic theory of knowledge, interpreted broadly as the identification of truth with prediction and the instrument by which the human mind was able better to predict and control its environment or more successfully to resolve the problems and conflicts it encountered and experienced.
Based on a pragmatic approach, the goal of this protocol is to improve the identification of older patients with iNPH from its mimics (i.e. vascular dementia or other parkinsonian syndromes).
This strategy was conceived as iterative and purposive: it required search strategies that aimed to maximise the likelihood of retrieving a model of pragmatic utility to the project; the aim was not the systematic identification of all such models.
In this review a pragmatic approach to perioperative management is described, giving guidance on the identification of the high-risk patient and on the use of goal-directed haemodynamic therapy and β blockade.
Our approach to the sampling of national and local experts was pragmatic and purposive and based on team meetings, snowball sampling and the identification of experts through searching.
Detailed neuropsychological testing, although able to detect early subclinical deficits, is not widely available, and therefore identification of clinical features with high predictive value for PDD has pragmatic value for clinicians.
Even though 16S rDNA-based sequencing is the pragmatic approach for bacterial identification, the traditional method of Gram staining and biochemical characterization does not only aid in the identification of bacteria, but also provides information on the extracellular secretions of the bacteria.
