Sentence examples for rate of limitations from inspiring English sources

The increased rate of limitations observed possibly reflects differences in long-held, generational attitudes about end-of-life care.

● Older patient age was associated with an increased rate of limitations in life support after adjusting for all baseline covariates and daily ICU organ dysfunction status.

Adding the SOFA score as a time-varying covariate to the initial model with only baseline covariates modestly attenuated the relationship between patient age and the rate of limitations in life support (RH, 1.24; 95% CI, 1.11 to 1.40), with all components of the SOFA score except neurologic status significantly associated with the rate of limitations (Table  3).

To investigate for a potential nonlinear relationship between age and the rate of limitations in life support, we evaluated both linear spline terms and age functions using fractional polynomials in multivariable models, and found no evidence of nonlinearity.

Without data on such discussions, we cannot infer whether the higher rate of limitations among older patients in this study reflects patients' wishes, or surrogates' and physicians' assumptions about the preferences of older patients.

Adding longitudinal data on daily organ dysfunction status to the initial model with baseline patient and ICU data attenuated the association between age and the rate of limitations in life support, suggesting that organ dysfunction may be a mediator in the age-limitation relationship but does not fully explain the association.

● Future studies should investigate whether higher rates of limitations among older patients are a result of differences in patient preferences by age, or differences in the treatment options discussed with the families of older versus younger patients.

● Higher rates of limitations in life support among older patients are not primarily a result of older patients' baseline comorbidity or functional status, nor a result of greater organ dysfunction following ALI onset.

We hypothesized that although organ dysfunction during hospitalization is likely to impact decisions to limit life support, patient age is directly associated with the rate of new limitations independent of organ dysfunction.

IOCs' internal rate of return limitations have kept them from some bidding rounds altogether; this is where NOCs have a built in advantage.

The objective of this study was to estimate the association between patient age and the rate of new limitations in the use of life support, independent of daily organ dysfunction status, following acute lung injury (ALI) onset.