Yet now, as one Israeli official put it to me, "We have not for psychological and political reasons defined our current position on land for peace".
The senior nurse may only advise against approaching prospective patients for serious reasons, defined by the medical condition or the patient being busy with or recovering from a test or intervention.
Barratt and colleagues performed a propensity-matched analysis of patients transferred to a different ICU for nonclinical reasons defined as lack of bed capacity within 48 hours of admission to predict the OR for hospital mortality [ 16].
We described transfer duration using the median and interquartile range, for all transfers and those for reasons defined as potentially urgent or non-urgent, and used cumulative distribution curves to compare transfer duration by urgency.
Alternatively, although not feasible for reasons defined above, if all 25 wards were included in the sample and 20 patients were included from each ward at each of five time periods, the resulting study comprising a total of 2,500 patients would have a power of 69% to detect a 38% reduction in proportion of patients experiencing weight loss.
The small vertical spikes represent censored data Open image in new window Fig. 4 Cumulative survival of 50 prostheses with revision for any reason defined as failure event.
The health care resource utilization outcomes measures (per person-year [PY]) observed in this study were hospitalizations for any reason (defined as all-cause hospitalizations), psychiatric-related hospitalizations, and emergency room (ER) visits.
One author (APNJ) extracted the following data from included studies: number of patients, mean or median age, percentage of female patients and percentage of patients admitted for a surgical reason (defined as ICU admission from the operating room when not explicitly stated).
Table 2 gives the reasons for defining a pregnancy as complicated; a woman could have several reasons.
He begins, tongue in cheek, with "serious, intellectual... reasons for defining Paris as a big city".
