Sentences with phrase «of a bad outcome leading»

The reason insurance rates are high is because the risk of a bad outcome leading to a large payout is high.

Not exact matches

Most of the time, the potential outcome isn't nearly as bad as our fear leads us to believe.

Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

«While not all negative divergences lead to negative outcomes, we are seeing enough of them to warrant some caution as we enter the worst part of the calendar.»

The outpouring of almost comically muddled explanations of and forecasts for the Chinese growth miracle has been an especially egregious example of the way well - intentioned economic analysis has led to, or at least encouraged, worse outcomes.

But this is not true and this failure of understanding is unfortunate, because it can lead to bad policy outcomes for both current and future generations.

This of course leads to agitating the injury and the tear can expand, leading to much worse outcome.

For low - risk women who had never given birth before, home birth led to bad outcomes (such as encephalopathy or stillbirth) slightly less than 1 % of the time.

In my practice I have seen both sides of the argument lead to good outcomes and bad.

They are choosing to go without prenatal care and — this is a guess — showing up at our hospitals - of - last resort (public hospitals) in labor, leading to worse outcomes.

In regard to the involvement of regional actors, it seems in the book that there are examples where the involvement of regional actors in the state - building process is highly beneficial and other times when it leads to worse outcomes.

He doesn't necessarily see that as a bad outcome because he thinks it will lead to an exciting redevelopment of a lot of older buildings.

Johnson's predicament is the least of the bad outcomes from the war between the state's two leading Democrats, which is hurting the city in ways that are not often explained in the many media reports about it.

While the track record of western - led intervention in civil wars may not be as bad as some critics occasionally make out — the Western Balkans, for example, today are a far cry from what they were 20 years ago — recent experiences clearly indicate the limits of military interventions to produce desirable outcomes.

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

Professor Voors concluded: «The major finding from this substudy of the RELAX - AHF trial is that diuretic resistance is a clinical problem that leads to worse in - hospital and early post-discharge clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure.

O'Donnell says he tells this story as a reminder of how difficult it is to make a precise prognosis, but R.'s story also challenges assumptions that anxiety and stress lead to a bad outcome while positive feelings automatically bring a positive outcome.

«Racial - ethnic minorities suffer more strokes and worse stroke outcomes than White Americans and they often show up later to an emergency room to seek critical treatments,» said Bernadette Boden - Albala, M.P.H., Dr.PH., lead author and professor of public health, dentistry and neurology and associate dean of program development, at Global Institute of Public Health at New York University.

The hope, says Steere, is that this growing understanding of Lyme disease may lead to breakthroughs in treatment, and in heading off the worst outcomes.

Following the whole process from molecule detection and the reaction of the nerves to the outcome of behavior the researchers found a line in the fly's brain that identifies bad odors and leads the fly to avoid these smells as they indicate something is toxic.

Her new book, «A Course in Deception,» draws on her experiences in science, and weaves a tale of how greed and pressures to publish can lead to even worse outcomes than the sort we write about at Retraction Watch.

«Older children [aged 6 - 12 years] were more likely to report intentional ingestion and to have adverse health effects and worse outcomes than were younger children, suggesting that older children might be deliberately misusing or abusing alcohol hand sanitizers,» wrote the team led by Dr. Cynthia Santos, of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health.

But it's not all sunshine and roses; a bulk gone bad can lead to a variety of negative outcomes, like too much fat gain, or even no weight gain at all.

This rule might not lead us to the best possible education outcomes, but it prevents the worst type of abuses.

Too much discipline can snowball a student towards bad outcomes: a suspension from acting out in class can lead to feelings of being an outcast, which could reinforce the behavior, which then leads to further suspensions, and finally expulsion.

«If this study shows anything, it shows that we've got a two - to - one margin of bad charters to good charters,» said lead author Margaret E. Raymond, who directs Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes» (CREDO).

In a statement, the organisation said it shared the «ambition and passion for social mobility», but warned that experts were «unanimous that an expansion of grammar schools would lead to worse outcomes for the majority of children, especially the poorest».

I know there are plenty of relators claiming to be specialist in short selling, but this could be a very bad outcome if homework and research is not done leading to foreclosure.

CAAB, Vice President of Shelter Research and Development, ASPCA September 2014 We've been told giving pets as gifts leads to bad outcomes — but research doesn't support that belief.

In such cases, the best outcome is finding the dog a proper and loving home and a family that will take care of all their needs, in the worst case it leads to strain, stress, and suffering on all sides.

Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues (one being that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as noted in a review by the Dutch environment agency, has traditionally focused its summaries on worst - case outcomes and left out potential positive effects or other factors, like population growth, that contribute to climate vulnerability).

Whether the threat of resource depletion and the state of environment are on a path that leads to a very bad outcome in far future (far might be 30 years or significantly more) or not the markets are too myopic to react.

In the lead up to the final show - down, I think it is vital to understand just how high the stakes of a bad outcome are.

If scientists can demonstrate to policymakers that we would see significantly fewer and less intense extreme weather events by putting the brakes on our emissions then it might lead to the necessary action to protect society and the environment from the worst outcomes of climate change.»

I'm questioning whether or not it's reasonable that the empirical record described in the Chapter 5 Executive Summary of the AR4 could lead to the worst case projected outcome in table 10.7.

However, the health impacts from candle - produced soot are not known.One type of candle that has been linked to bad health outcomes is candles with lead core wicks, which are used to make the wicks stand up and to prevent them from falling in the candle wax.

The language in the letters that likely leads many people to pay is the promise of not seeking more money if the letter's stated dollar amount is paid in settlement, coupled with the recipient's fear of risking a worse outcome by not paying.

Conversely, how does the employer know when a candidate's poor grasp of the legal principles in a given situation leads her to give legal advice that doesn't result in an obviously bad outcome, but a less - than - optimal result?

Underinsurance leads to all sorts of bad outcomes — bankruptcies, home foreclosures, unsustainable debt — which we'll explore further in this blog.

«We examined differences between counties that had and did not have a Planned Parenthood affiliate, finding worse outcomes in places impacted by the exclusion; whereas places unaffected by the exclusion continued as they had before,» said Amanda Jean Stevenson, lead author and doctoral candidate at the The University of Texas of Austin.

Certainly it can lead to very bad outcomes (the prisons are full of people with undiagnosed and / or untreated ADHD), but it can also lead to huge success, joy and fulfillment in life.

If unbalancing a relationship, that is, fostering asymmetry of growth from treating just one spouse, can lead to the toppling of a marriage, that's a seriously bad outcome.