We talk about bite
severity scales, how much the dog jumps, what the lack of impulse control is, how often he is pulling.
Injury
Severity Scales were determined as well as victim and payer mix demographics, type and characteristics of injury, and complications from the attack.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane
severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.
This guide will walk you through the levels of the Plagiocephaly
Severity Scale in simple terms that -LSB-...]
However, using the new CISP score, the system could tell whether the patients had level 1 or level 3 Parkinson's, using a particular disease
severity scale.
The severity of MS - associated symptoms was assessed using a standardized questionnaire and the Fatigue
Severity Scale (FSS).
Their goal was to use the device to accurately identify severe stroke and then compare the results to established physical examination methods practiced by emergency personnel such as the Prehospital Acute Stroke
Severity Scale.
The five psoriasis cases, ranging from mild to severe at the study onset, improved on all measured outcomes over a six - month period when measured by the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index, the Psoriasis
Severity Scale, and the lactulose / mannitol test of intestinal permeability.
For injuries at the lower end of
the severity scale, Alberta's soft tissue injury cap may apply.
The Fatigue Scale was developed as a measure of the severity of specific fatigue - related symptoms, while the Fatigue
Severity Scale was designed to assess functional outcomes related to fatigue.
This investigation explored relationships between two commonly - used fatigue rating scales in CFS research, the Fatigue Scale and the Fatigue
Severity Scale.
Primary outcome: treatment response defined variably; number of patients with at least a 50 % reduction from baseline score on a condition relevant scale: the Hamilton Anxiety Scale for generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), the Panic Disorder
Severity Scale or the Sheehan Panic Anxiety Scale — Patient for panic disorder, the Brief Social Phobia Scale or the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for social phobia or a Clinical Global Impressions — Improvement (CGI - I) score of 1 or 2.
Severity of illness (global symptom
severity scale), change in symptoms (clinical global improvement scale), and social functioning (Sheehan Disability Scale).
The Children's Depression Rating Scale — Revised (CDRS - R) is a 17 - item, clinician - rated
severity scale for depression in children aged 6 to 17 years.41 The CDRS - R correlates significantly with clinical global ratings of depression and differentiates clinically defined groups of children who differ in depression severity.
Severity of ADHD symptoms (Conners Abbreviated Symptom Questionnaire for teachers [ASQ - Teacher]-RRB-, tic severity (Yale Global Tic
Severity Scale [YGTSS]-RRB-, and global functioning (Children's Global Assessment Scale [C - GAS]-RRB-.
The co-occurrence of invisible symptoms (fatigue, depression and apathy) was stated using validated, self - administered tools: Fatigue
Severity Scale (FSS); Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI - II); Apathy Evaluation... Scale (AES).
Primary outcomes: worry severity (self - report Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)-RRB- and GAD severity (clinician rated Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Severity Scale [GADSS]-RRB-.
Not exact matches
Usually what we do is note the transgression and grade its
severity on a made up
scale.
Most concussion and return - to - play guidelines issued before 2000 use numeric grading
scales and rely on the presence / absence of loss of consciousness (LOC) and post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) to determine the
severity of a concussion and return to play (RTP).
Moreover, English councils have been ordered to introduce a sliding
scale of fines, so drivers are punished according to the
severity of their offence.
Under the proposal, motorists would have faced a sliding fee
scale depending on the
severity of a crash.
In addition, the scientists assessed the
severity of participants» OCD symptoms before and after the treatment, using a
scaled system in which a lower score indicates less severe or less frequent symptoms.
Around half of these patients showed improvement as early as week four of the trial and up to 71 % had shown a high level of improvement, as measured using a
scale called the Psoriasis Area and
Severity Index, by week 12.
One patient had been assessed before trying rTMS as very severely depressed based on the widely used Hamilton Depression Rating
Scale (HAM - D), a series of multiple - choice questionnaires that clinicians use to rate depression
severity.
Under pressure from the Kyoto Protocol, which went into effect in February for just about every country except the United States and Australia, people elsewhere have actually begun to think about such questions, often in ways that are startling for their
scale and
severity.
(The condition's
severity was assessed using a
scale that measured feelings of being frozen, mute, numb and so on.)
Patients reported the
severity of their headaches on a visual analogue
scale (VAS), ranging from 1 - 10, to quantify the degree of debilitation experienced from the migraine.
One possibility he said is to develop a three - point
scale for
severity that is country specific.
A new report by the Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) sheds light on the many effects of litter in our oceans, and highlights the
severity and
scale of the issue.
IU Center for Aging Research investigators have developed and validated the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit 7 — the CAM - ICU - 7 for short — an easy - to - use delirium
severity instrument that scores delirium on a
scale of 0 to 7 — mild to severe delirium — and is useable with all ICU patients, including those on mechanical ventilation.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rated the geomagnetic storm 4 out of 5 on its
scale of storm
severity.
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Kiev, Ukraine, and the Cheboratev Institute of Gerontology in Kiev are the first to conduct a large -
scale study of the relationship between famine
severity during different stages of prenatal development and Type 2 diabetes risk.
In a large -
scale two - country study that is the first of its kind, researchers examined whether the
severity of the economic downturn of the 2008 - 09 recession depended on regional personality profiles.
The ONTRAC trial assessed ADHD symptom
severity using a parent rating
scale, and measured cognitive performance on tests of attention, response inhibition and working memory.
Most of them caused disease, and the differences among them accounted for the sliding
scale of
severity that doctors saw.
While second - stage results showed no significant differences between participants continuing to receive weekly doses of the active drug, those receiving biweekly doses and those shifted to placebo, Kimball notes that, since it is typical for the
severity of HS symptoms to increase and decrease and because the study protocol required treatment discontinuation for participants whose symptoms stopped responding to the drug, larger
scale studies will be required to better define the ideal length and frequency of treatment.
Cataract
severity is measured on a
scale of zero to four, with four being the worst case.
A new JRC report sheds light on the many effects of litter in our oceans, and highlights the
severity and
scale of the issue.
An overall «distress» score is also calculated for each symptom on a
scale from 0 — 16, by multiplying the frequency by
severity scores [2, 27, 28].
Then we briefly describe some of the epidemiologic characteristics and recent genomic advances associated with four particular infectious diseases - Ebola, pandemic influenza, hepatitis B and tuberculosis - that have large -
scale public health consequences but differ in terms of ease of transmission, chronicity,
severity, preventability and treatability, factors which affect a range of ELSI issues.
If present, symptoms were characterized by the patient as to
severity by use of an 8 - cm - long visual analogue
scale, previously used elsewhere in a published treatment trial of patients with Lyme disease [20].
Self - report
scales measured illness
severity prior to treatment, after every 5 treatments, and upon completion of treatment.
Motor function of the affected upper limb was evaluated mainly using FMA, WMFT, motor activity log (MAL), and the
severity of spasticity was measured with modified Ashworth
scale (MAS) at BoNTA injection, discharge and 4 weeks post-discharge.
Very little is known about the large -
scale brain networks that may underlie the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of FXS.To identify large -
scale, resting - state networks in FXS that differ from control individuals matched on age, IQ, and
severity of behavioral and cognitive symptoms.Cross - sectional, in vivo neuroimaging study conducted in an academic medical center.
Emergency Medical Services personnel use a simple, rapid means of determining the
severity of stroke known as the RACE (Rapid Arterial Occlusion Evaluation)
Scale.
At the beginning of the study, the average
severity of the men's symptoms measured about 14.5 on a 35 - point
scale commonly used by urologists; by the end, the average
severity had declined by three points in the placebo group and just two points in the saw palmetto group.
The Zung Depression
Scale can also be a useful tool for tracking changes in the
severity of depression.
The ratings provide a general indication of depression
severity, but the Zung Depression
Scale can not take the place of a trained healthcare provider for confirmation of a depression diagnosis.
Not only assessing the
severity on a 1 - 10 pain
scale, but also where you're having the pain and what type of pain it is.
At the beginning of the study, the participants rated the
severity of their fibromyalgia symptoms — including pain, fatigue, stiffness, poor sleep, and anxiety — on a
scale from 0 to 100 using a standard questionnaire.