The identification of high-risk surgical patients is essential for proper treatment; time of surgery and preoperative SAPS 3 seem to provide a useful indication of risk and may help better to characterize patients undergoing intermediate-risk surgery that demand ICU care.
This might also be a useful indication, considering the limitation when using sulfonylureas or thiazolidinediones in terms of adverse events.
It follows that Q will not exceed: 1 This result enables us to explore the conditions under which SMRs may provide a useful indication of preventable mortality.
Although the specific indicators tracked by Countdown were generally felt to be a useful indication of situations and trends, some participants suggested that they lacked enough detail to inform their policy-making.
But it is a useful indication of just how far defendants can safely go.
I'm not sure this metaphor quite works, but it's a useful indication of Mears's view of the world.
The most useful indication of time equivalence is similar fossil content, provided of course that such remains are present.
It is a useful indication of the care to be taken in assuming that the so-called Arab Spring is a time of revolutionary social renewal.
Timing errors averaged about two hours, and predictions gave a useful indication of the likelihood of an eclipse to intending observers.
The sale of 1372 Broadway offers a useful indication of where the market is headed, Mr. Singer said, but it would not be enough induce his clients to start buying.
And a useful indication of the scale of the task facing those who might wish to get a mildly off-colour joke about Islam on screen any time soon.
