(a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
(2) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(3) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(4) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
(5) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
(6) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(7) The incidence was 0.31 per 1000 gynaecological admissions and the peak age incidence was in the age group 26 to 35 years.
(8) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(9) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(10) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(11) It is concluded that based on readily available clinical criteria at the time of admission, a subgroup of patients at low risk for developing life-threatening complications requiring coronary care unit interventions can be identified and admitted directly to an intermediate-care unit.
(12) Functional status on admission measured by the Katz ADL was the most powerful predictor of functional status at discharge.
(13) During that period 1866 neonates were transferred from maternities of Strasbourg and its region to the neonatology unit, representing 23.77% of total admissions.
(14) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
(15) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(16) The alveolar-arterial oxygen difference was greater than 150 mmHg (20 kPa) in nine subjects on admission.
(17) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
(18) The Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) were recorded at the time of admission for all patients.
(19) Adverse drug reactions (ADR) were the primary cause of admission in 49 patients (11.5%), and 16 patients (3.8%) were admitted due to drug non-compliance (DNC).
(20) Three patients died shortly after admission due to pulmonary complications.
Heuristic
Definition:
(a.) Serving to discover or find out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two methods for diagnostic classification of the electrocardiogram are described: a heuristic one and a statistical one.
(2) Within the Theory of Dual Radiation Action, the heuristically useful function, gamma(chi), that two energy depositions, a distance chi apart, will result in observable damage can be written in terms of two more fundamental quantities: One, s(chi), describes the structure of the sensitive matrix of the cell.
(3) The immune alterations of Down's syndrome and those of infantile AIDS may be taken as heuristic examples in this sense.
(4) The authors point out the conceptual, heuristic, and practical clinical advantages of examining living preference rather than traditional correlates of hospital tenure.
(5) Use of the CGAS can be of heuristic value to complement other methods of diagnostic categorization.
(6) The generalization of the algorithm to reconstruct gene conversions and the possibility for heuristic versions of the algorithm for larger data sets are discussed.
(7) The clinical nurse specialists contributed many of the heuristics in the determination of self-care deficit as a nursing diagnosis.
(8) The present article suggests one means by which this may be achieved while still retaining the heuristic value of Matte Blanco's systems.
(9) A set of heuristics, employing information concerning nuclear hemoglobin content, is shown to discriminate nucleated erythrocytic cells from those of the leukocyte series.
(10) (i) knowledge about the processes of the system under investigation, expressed in terms of a Continuous System Simulation Language (CSSL); (ii) heuristic knowledge on how to reach the goals of the simulation experiment, expressed in terms of a Rule Description Language (RDL); and (iii) knowledge about the requirements of the intended users, expressed in terms of a User Interface Description Language (UIDL).
(11) In Duchenne muscular dystrophy the course of the different enzyme activities can be described by an heuristic mathematical formula (y = Ae-at + bte-ct).
(12) The starting points for energy minimizations were generated from the following two types of inputs: (a) the amino acid sequence and (b) the heuristic inputs, which were derived according to physical, chemical, and biological principles by piecing together all useful information available.
(13) Thirdly, neuropsychological-neurophysiological studies are "heuristic" fishing-expeditions to find a presumed abnormality to account for psychopathology, without doing the prospective longitudinal research necessary to validate such theory.
(14) Superficial knowledge level characterized by the intuitive reasoning from test results to diseases and deep knowledge level referring to the relations among the pathophysiologic states were stratified, and the heuristics based on the experiences at bed-side were incorporated in this knowledge representation.
(15) The heuristic models are equivalent to diffusion theory for diffuse incident light, but not for collimated incident light.
(16) While agreeing with Veatch's criticisms of unilateral ethical decision making by physicians, Kultgen argues that his contract model has only limited value--as a heuristic device for thinking about the principles underlying medical ethics--while conceptual difficulties preclude its serving to reconcile conflicting traditions in ethical theories or to achieve a consensus on a morally valid medical covenant.
(17) The use of a genetic marker as a heuristic diagnostic criterion in a subgroup of heredofamilial psychoses with unclear diagnostic boundaries is proposed.
(18) There were still quite a few Marxists at Oxford in those days – Terry Eagleton and his clique were seemingly bolted to the same table in the King’s Arms the entire time I was an undergraduate – but while I was silly and naive enough to believe in the purifying, energising effects of violent revolution, I wasn’t obtuse enough to think of dialectical materialism as anything more than a powerful heuristic.
(19) A six-factor model provides a heuristic framework for understanding adherence behavior: (1) effective provider communication; (2) rapport with provider; (3) client's beliefs and attitudes; (4) client's social climate and norms; (5) behavioral intentions; and (6) supports for and barriers to adherence.
(20) The heuristics modify and link the explanations to make the physician aware of diagnostic complexities.