The questionnaire was created for the purpose of assessing expert opinion on the identified gaps in research regarding maternal morbidity, and included questions on the timeframe, severity, identification, and classification of maternal morbidity (see Additional file 1).
Plain radiographs remain the most commonly used clinical method of assessing joint structure for the purposes of OA diagnosis and classification of severity.
Medication confounds the assessment of asthma symptoms and classification of disease severity.
First, the location and classification of the severity of pterygium were not recorded during the survey.
The diagnosis and classification of the severity of AP were performed according to the 2012 revision of the Atlanta Classification [ 10].
The Sydney system with the description and classification of histological severity of gastritis has become well established, whereas no international consensus has yet been reached on the description and classification of specific gastroscopic gastritis findings.
Figure 2 shows the distribution and classification of disease severity of 730 children with HFMD in the 2006 outbreak according to the duration of febrile illness and the risk factors that were present when they first presented to hospital.
As well as differences, there are some common elements to most standard and nonstandard treatment pathways such as similar protocols for diagnostic assessment and classification of tinnitus severity, as well as similar management options (Baguley et al. 2013).
In an attempt to improve on current sepsis definitions, the PIRO (predisposition, infection, response, organ dysfunction) concept advocates the use of readily measurable circulating biomarkers as an additional tool in the timely assessment and severity classification of septic patients, and in the prediction of mortality [ 4].
Procalcitonin (PCT) was initially used to determine sepsis diagnosis [ 6] and, afterwards, to help in severity classification of patients [ 7] and to guide antibiotic treatment duration [ 8].
