Sentences with phrase «illness severity»

Arrival by ambulance is a marker of illness severity that has been omitted from the previous studies on which the seven - day services policy is based.

Self - report scales measured illness severity prior to treatment, after every 5 treatments, and upon completion of treatment.

After adjusting for illness severity, patients at low - volume centers were 41 percent more likely to die in the hospital than lung transplant patients at high - volume centers.

This is an important marker of increased illness severity.

Overall, optimizing vitamin D levels has been found to potentially reduce risk of illness severity; from dementia to diabetes.

The organization measures illness severity among patients using a MELD score (model end stage liver disease), with a higher number indicating increased severity.

Although a sample size of 389 is quite large in comparison to most ME / CFS studies, further analysis of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in a much larger population of patients will be needed to discover how genetic variation affects illness severity, progression, and symptom clusters.

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

Hospital admission was considered for all groups as a measure of illness severity.18

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 12, 2016, the study's findings suggest patients» illness severity, functional abilities, cognitive status and neuropsychological wellbeing are not associated with caregiver outcomes.

The diverse group of study participants from age 1 to 13 years covered a wide range of different conditions and illness severity.

3M identifies readmissions with diagnoses that are clinically related to those prompting the initial admission, to flag those patients whose readmission could have been avoided, and then generates hospital level rates of avoidable readmissions, taking account of population case mix and illness severity.

Researchers controlled the results for age, gender, and illness severity.

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 12, 2016, the study's findings suggest patients» illness severity, functional abilities, cognitive status and neuropsychological well - being are not associated with caregiver outcomes.

Some factors that predict adjustment may not be particularly open to hospital - based intervention such as family environment, illness severity and chronicity (the long - term nature of the diagnosis).9 However, other factors that have been identified as facilitators of successful adjustment are more amenable to hospital - based intervention.

The task force recommendations should not, however, constrain the monitoring of lactate as a guide to therapeutic response or as an indicator of illness severity.

Risk factors for persistent traumatic stress reactions include prior traumatic experiences or behavioral problems, more severe pain or exposure to frightening sights and sounds while in the hospital, subjective sense of life threat and injury / illness severity, and more severe early traumatic stress reactions.

The PCDAI is a measure of illness severity that is comprised of patient recall items (pain severity, stool frequency and limitation of activities), physical examination items, and laboratory data.

Illness severity was not significantly associated with any outcome measure or age at diagnosis.