Trauma patients have a wide range of injury severity, meaning fluid requirements range from nothing to massive transfusion.
This variability depends, amongst other factors, on the clinical criteria followed by surgeons in the different regions to prescribe the procedure for cases of different severity, meaning that a percentage of surgeries performed might be considered to be "inappropriate or unfounded" [ 24].
It has been reported that treatment benefits may increase with illness severity, while others have suggested that only patients with intermediate illness severity benefit, meaning that patients with low or high disease severity will survive or die, respectively, regardless of the provided treatment; some therapies may even be harmful in low risk populations [ 23- 25].
Indeed the focus of most IPV research today has moved beyond considering the simple frequency of a violent act, and often considers other aspects of IPV, such as its severity, patterns, meaning, consequences and motivations [ 12].
One aim of the study was to determine which of the following were key predictors of QoL: pain characteristics (i.e. severity, duration, meaning of pain and perceived availability and efficacy of pain relief), psychological distress (e.g. depression), physical functioning and social functioning.
The official said the decision authorized the military to act in accordance with the severity of Palestinian attacks, meaning that a ground offensive would be ordered only after massive rocket fire.
However, a significant inverse correlation was observed between the level of phospho-NBR1T586 and the severity of protein aggregation, meaning that among sIBM patients, the level of remaining NBR1 phosphorylation is a direct readout of protein aggregation (Fig. 5D).
We succeeded in our aim of including more severely affected patients, however, meaning that our sample was heterogeneous with regard to disease severity and contained patients from across the spectrum of severity.
When compared to tapering doses of methadone used for medically supervised withdrawal, peak withdrawal severity was worse with lofexidine, meaning people treated with lofexidine instead of methadone were more likely to have severe withdrawal, and reported higher peak scores for withdrawal symptoms.
A related limitation is lack of case follow-up, meaning that the disease severities were not recorded.
It says this means that both the causes and severity of oil spills may therefore be misrecorded, sometimes meaning affected communities miss out on compensation.
