Sentences with phrase «measured illness severity»

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

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

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The height of fever is not a measure of the severity of an illness.

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

How to assess severity of illness and determine intervention options: self - help measures, medication, psychotherapy, hospitalization, supportive counseling

This questionnaire was developed in a hospital outpatient clinic, avoiding questions that could be influenced by physical illness symptoms72 and has since been found a reliable measure of anxiety and depression symptom severity in physical and psychiatric illness, primary care patients and general population.73 It has been validated for Portuguese patients.74

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.

These included: psychiatric disorder (duration and severity between ages 15 and 32 years, coded into none (59 %, no evidence of psychiatric disorders), mild (37 %, minor or inconsequential nervous disorders) or severe (5 %, psychiatric episodes of more than a year's duration, or any out - patient or in - patient episodes for psychiatric disorder); neuroticism and extraversion (measured at age 26 years by the Maudsley Personality Inventory14); chronic illness (physical, non-fatal conditions in 14 % of parents between ages 20 — 25 years); physical activity (frequency and duration in the preceding month collected at age 36 years.