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It's just a question of severity".
All adverse events were recorded with a question of severity, in relation to therapy and graded by severity.
However, not all women consider hot flushes disturbing [ 6, 8- 11] and the question of severity remains to be solved.
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Differences in response were only noted for the question on severity of drought, particularly for the drought considered modest by the majority of the participants (that is >75%%).
However, asking just one question on severity of OA needs to be supported by ascertaining whether such reporting of severity correlates with (or manifests via) other patient-reported outcomes that are interpretable, useful, and quantifiable.
In the South Islington study a set of structured questions on severity of risk, eliciting ratings on a five point scale encompassing no risk, mild risk, moderate risk and severe risk was used.
On the other hand, large health surveys cannot feasibly include a full burden-of-headache questionnaire; instead, the necessary minimum is a valid screening question for active headache disorder, some questions allowing determination of severity (frequency, intensity and duration), and ideally a question set for the diagnosis of migraine and TTH (as mutually exclusive diagnoses).
Table 1 The five questions of the Severity Dependence Scale (SDS) adapted for headache medication 1 Do you think your use of headache medication was out of control?
Suicidal ideation is commonly assessed by a set of questions of increasing severity that aim to investigate the full spectrum of suicidal thoughts and/or behaviour.
Questions regarding standards of severity may be interesting topics for further (ethical) research.
8 Despite the existence of a relatively large literature on the effectiveness of low intensity interventions, 5 9 10 11 12 there is relatively little rigorous evidence on the critical clinical question of whether initial severity moderates effectiveness of low intensity interventions that is, do more severely ill patients show better or worse treatment effects?
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