In designing such criteria, individual components must be chosen and weighted such that a favourable score reflects benefit outweighing risk to a meaningful degree.
Whether this reflects benefit of withholding any nutrition, irrespective of the route, or more deleterious effects of more PN remains to be studied [ 64].
Whether this reflects benefit of metformin, adverse effect of insulin, or difference between type 2 diabetic patients requiring the two agents cannot be deduced from the reported associations.
Practice and coverage indicators provided the hard benchmarks to assess success or failure, as they directly reflected benefits to the population.
Endpoints need to reflect benefit to patients, and show that changes in tumour size either in absolute terms (response and progression) or relative to control (progression) are clinically relevant.
Relationships between Mayo scores and both PRO measurements were stable, in the right direction (reflecting benefit to the patient), and approximately linear.
"It reflects the benefits of competition".
Hobbes reasoned that because consumption better reflects the benefits a person receives as a member of society, it is the proper basis of taxation.
In particular, the increase in margins reflects the benefits of cost cutting as well as the self help that new products and customer acquisitions have achieved on the revenue line.
The latter reflects the benefits of modern curricula that focus on the multidisciplinary and integrated nature of the clinical learning context.
