(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(4) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(5) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(6) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(7) Three criteria of fusion ventricular complexes were found to be undiagnostic for right and left ventricular complexes in SVE.
(8) The criteria for sero-positivity was determined from the median antibody concentration in a group of 368 non-endoscoped control patients.
(9) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
(10) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
(11) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
(12) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
(13) Criteria for DOP administration were systolic blood pressure less than 100 mmHg and central venous pressure greater than 15 cmH2O.
(14) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
(15) Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop different sets of criteria to serve different investigative purposes.
(16) Six cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia fulfilled the following criteria: 1) more than a two-month history of symptoms prior to diagnosis, 2) a prolonged clinical course and 3) recurrence.
(17) 3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl ethylene glycol (DOPEG), a metabolite of noradrenaline (NA), was estimated in CSF of 30 patients of depression diagnosed by the criteria of American Psychiatric Association in DSM-III; and compared with levels in 10 non-depressed individuals who served as controls.
(18) The efficacy of endolymphatic antibiotic therapy was evaluated by using clinical, laboratory, cytochemical, and immunological criteria.
(19) In the first of two phases of this study, we established criteria for a prospective screening study.
(20) In all, 23 patients were evaluable by WHO criteria.
Yardstick
Definition:
(n.) A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) To measure the drug response, the extent of clinical improvement following treatment was used as a yardstick.
(2) Using the DSM-3 diagnosis as a yardstick, the performance of the hospital anxiety depression scale was compared with that of the general health questionnaire.
(3) The Goslon (Great Ormond Street, London and Oslo) Yardstick is a clinical tool that allows categorization of the dental relationships in the late mixed and or early permanent dentition stage into five discrete categories.
(4) With regard to glutathione, directly measured decrease, as compared to control levels, may be used as the yardstick of the changes.
(5) In our opinion our observations do not demonstrate a better capacity of recovery of the young patients: but the young patients show a more severe clinical picture than the older patients do, if only the clinical syndrome of coma grade III with extensor rigidity, is considered as a yardstick for comparison.
(6) By those yardsticks, 2010 is doing its best to oblige and the debate last night undoubtedly helped.
(7) The 15N-excretion via the urine, in terms of % of N absorbed from the food protein, served as yardstick of protein quality under maintenance conditions.
(8) The surge of populist, nationalist movements in Europe , and their apparent counterpart in the US, has stirred unhappy memories and has, perhaps inevitably, had commentators and others reaching for the historical yardstick to see if today measures up to 80 years ago.
(9) The unemployment rate using the internationally agreed yardstick for calculating joblessness rose to 7.9% for May to July, from 7.7% in February to April.
(10) However, this simplified yardstick should not be applied for comparison of the carcinogenic potency of different types of PAH-containing exhausts.
(11) Even when women succeed, the male norm remains the yardstick.
(12) He argued that the government's inexperience and "perhaps a touch of recklessness" had led Osborne to repeatedly cite the UK's credit rating as such an important yardstick.
(13) Obtained value of fractal dimension of protein surface (ds congruent to 2.2) is in a good agreement with the results of conventional approach (with variation of yardstick length) to protein surface fractality.
(14) The increase in the CPI measure of inflation was matched by a rise in the alternative yardstick of the cost of living, the retail prices index, which rose from 5.1% to 5.5% last month, its highest for 20 years.
(15) By that ultimate yardstick of superpower status, nuclear weapons, the US far outstrips China.
(16) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
(17) On this basis, the use of a specific probing depth at 3 or 12 months following treatment as a yardstick for the provision of supplementary treatment may not be justified.
(18) So says Richard Burger, regulatory partner at City law firm RPC , anyway: “The number of prosecutions achieved by the regulators with their new powers will be seen as the yardstick of their success.
(19) The effect of pharmacological immunosuppression with either cortisone acetate or cyclosporine provided a "yardstick" to measure the magnitude of transfusion effects.
(20) The government has two ways of calculating unemployment: the claimant count, a narrow measure of the number of people out of work and claiming certain state benefits; and the Labour Force Survey, an internationally-agreed yardstick that classifies someone as unemployed if they are out of work and have actively looked for a job in the past month.