Sentence examples for trauma indicator from inspiring English sources
In a statement announcing the approval, the F.D.A. said that the brain trauma indicator was able to predict the presence of intracranial lesions on a CT scan 97.5percentt of the time, and those who did not have such lesions 99.6percentt of the time.
They may be a trauma indicator as well as a potential risk factor for disseminating the disease.
Mortality in cases was also higher than in controls (5.7-27.1%, P<0.001), except for the obstetric trauma indicators.
Excess mortality was also higher in England than in the US, except for the obstetric trauma indicators where there were few deaths in both countries.
The excess was greatest for postoperative hip fracture and sepsis (17 and 16 days, respectively) and, as expected, lowest for the obstetric trauma indicators (under one day).
Similar patterns were apparent for excess mortality, where levels in England were generally higher than in the US except for the obstetric trauma indicators, which did not show significant patterns because of the low numbers of deaths in both countries.
A declining trend was apparent for death in low mortality health resource groups, and an increasing trend for decubitus ulcer and two obstetric trauma indicators: vaginal delivery with and without instrument (these trends were significant at the 1% level).
Similarly, mortality in cases was significantly higher than in controls for most indicators; the exceptions (again as expected) were the obstetric trauma indicators, where there were no deaths in the matched set for two indicators, and one death for the third indicator.
In the Zhan and Miller analysis for the US, 12 match rates (that is, the proportion of cases with matched controls) were lower than those we obtained for England, except for the obstetric trauma indicators, where both analyses reached near complete match rates (table 2).
Complications have been identified as a priority for the development of trauma performance indicators [ 9, 10].
