Sentence examples for severe index from inspiring English sources

This score was used as a dichotomous variable to separate patients with a more severe index of disease (score >50th percentile) from those with a less severe index of disease (score <50th percentile).

mild index: less than 0.2 (score: 1), moderate index: 0.2 to 0.4 (score: 2), severe index: greater than 0.4 (score: 4).

For the 'moderate to severe' index- and item-based Barthel to AQoL algorithm, differences between mean predicted and mean observed AQoL scores were neither clinically nor statistically significant for patients in the NIHSS ≥ 6 subgroup.

It is based on the palatal index description for cleft palate deformity (proportion between the width of the cleft (cleft's severity) and the summary of the width of the two palatal segments (tissue deficiency)) measured at the level of the hard and soft palates junction [ 43]: mild index: less than 0.2 (score: 1), moderate index: 0.2 to 0.4 (score: 2), severe index: greater than 0.4 (score: 4).

Retrospective study of consecutive patients admitted in a 16-bed general intensive care unit (ICU), between January 1996 and January 2009, for severe (Pneumonia Severity Index > or = 4) community-acquired pneumonia due to non penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and treated with a β-lactam combined with a fluoroquinolone.

The majority of patients report significant improvement in knee pain severity after primary TKA, with only 7% of patients reporting moderate-severe index knee pain 2 years after primary TKA [ 2].

Additionally, ceftaroline has shown similar efficacy and safety to ceftriaxone in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia with severe prognosis (prognostic severity index III and IV) in two phase III clinical trials.

In summary, morbidity count (having more diseases and having more moderate or severe diseases) and severity index were associated with more limitations in activities and with more pain.

A total of 6159 (44%) had severe pneumonia by Pneumonia Severity Index class IV/V.

In multivariate regression analysis, class IV-V Pneumonia Severity Index (indicative for severe disease), Staphylococcus aureus, or Streptococcus pneumonia as causative pathogen, were independent cost driving factors.

Just over half (55%) of patients had moderate pain based on the BPI-sf Pain Severity Index, and 22% severe pain, supporting that moderate-to-severe chronic pain is a dominant feature for patients with FM.