This method used a "bottom up" approach to classify each hospital ward into one of seven categories using characteristics such as patient complexity, intervention levels, the presence of high dependency beds, the emergency/elective patient mix and patient turnover.
The methods we used in this study may be applied to other studies using characteristics such as AUC-values, sensitivity and specificity.
Traditionally, outcome after hip fracture has been measured using characteristics such as mortality, the need for further surgery and length of patient stay in hospital.
As such, there is no quantitative comparison of the reimbursement paid for less frequently used characteristics such as the diagnosis of AMI.
A number of computer-assisted diagnostic (CAD) methods that use characteristics such as microcalcification size, shape, and distribution have been introduced to increase the accuracy of mammographic diagnosis [ 14- 19].
Land use characteristics such as: land use mixing, land use diversity and green areas connectivity were successfully studied using spatial metrics, and they were used to map three "Land Use Transport" strategies: (i) proximity dynamics and non-motorised modes; (ii) modal shift from cars to Light Rail Transit system; (iii) shared spaces between motorised and non-motorised modes.
Seasonal water use characteristics (such as leaf stomatal conductance and leaf area ratio) may correlate with these root traits.
We identified structural land use characteristics such as field size, land use diversity, land holding patterns and the proportion of the target crop as the predominant factors which influence overall production of OSR in a coexistence scenario.
Until now, researchers have evaluated CA models microscopically using individual vehicle trajectories [20] or macroscopically using traffic characteristics such as stream speed, average flow, density or occupancy and number of overtaking instances [8, 10, 12].
The simulation model was calibrated and validated using traffic characteristics such as volume, density, speeds, occupancy time, etc., and then used to predict the exposure.
In order to convert an interlaced image into a display format image, a filtering strategy, which resizes images with arbitrary ratios and reduces the overall computational load, is performed region adaptively using local characteristics such as motion or motionless regions.
