Sentence examples for stone outcome from inspiring English sources
The model was also evaluated using a 6 mm largest stone dimension cutoff in predicting stone outcome.
It's worth saying nothing is set in stone until the outcome of this week's meeting – so there may be some modest tweaks to the 2030 targets above.
That, of course, destroyed the embryos, so their technique is only a stepping stone to the desired outcome of working with a single cell from each embryo.
Comparisons of the outcome variable (stone fragmentation) were analyzed using the Chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test.
Age and sex were explored as potential modifiers of the association between kidney stones and clinical outcomes.
Although the magnitude of the association between stones and adverse outcomes was greater for women than for men and for those aged <50 years than for those aged ≥50, the risk of all three outcomes in those with at least one episode of stones was significantly higher than in those without stones in both sexes and both age strata (table 3).
11 Another study examining the impact of kidney stones on renal outcomes found that kidney stones were associated with the development of chronic kidney disease, 12 but it failed to establish an association between kidney stones and ESRD perhaps because of its smaller sample size.
12 This would have allowed us to incorporate a maximum of 10 elements in a rule to predict the need for intervention as well as being sufficiently powered to derive a rule for the more common outcome (any ureteral stone).
The outcome was kidney stone presentation, defined as a surgical procedure, hospital admission, and/or at least two emergency room or outpatient clinic visits < 180 days apart for a primary diagnosis of nephrolithiasis using ICD-9 and CPT codes as defined by the Urologic Disease in America Project (Litwin and Saigal 2012).
Main Outcome Measures: Urinary stones.
The factors and outcomes assessed were stone length, operative time, presence of a ureteral stent, success, and complications.
