What's the difference between outcome and repercussion?

Outcome


Definition:

  • (n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (3) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (4) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
  • (5) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (6) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (7) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
  • (8) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (9) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (10) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (11) Both demographically and clinically assessed behavioral variables were related to a number of outcome measures, including days in the community, clinical ratings, and family assessment.
  • (12) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
  • (13) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (16) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (17) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
  • (18) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
  • (19) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.
  • (20) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.

Repercussion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
  • (n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
  • (n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
  • (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In spite of the limitations arising from the complex geometry of the right ventricule, echocardiography may be the most important non-invasive technique in the evaluation of the structural and functional repercussion of hypertension on the right ventricle.
  • (2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (3) Because of the central regulatory and metabolic importance of the liver, primary genito-endocrine disorders may also have hepatic repercussions.
  • (4) Different repercussion of drug therapy on rhythmic profile of patients with CHF.
  • (5) It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture.
  • (6) Keane, now assistant manager at Aston Villa and with the Republic of Ireland, is heavily critical of Ferguson for pursuing the legal case and says he went to see the United manager to tell him he was taking on the wrong men and that it would have serious repercussions for the club.
  • (7) The urodynamic repercussions of prostatic diseases can also be evaluated by ultrasound.
  • (8) The general late sequelae and the functional and aesthetic repercussions of circatrization were scrutinized and compared with the method of treatment and the postoperative course.
  • (9) She said: "The targets do not look that ambitious, while the failure of the banks to meet their previous targets without any obvious repercussions means they have little incentive to meet these new ones."
  • (10) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
  • (11) The data reveal that, within all sibling network categories, daughters were more likely than sons to be providing care to an impaired parent; however, the repercussions of being a caregiver were not similarly uniform.
  • (12) The very terms used to describe the consequences of disease have normative implications which have important repercussions on the elaboration of policies with respect to the identification and treatment of these consequences.
  • (13) There were very few and slight adverse effects secondary to antiemetic drugs: Sedation happened in 25% of chemotherapic cycles and hypotension without clinical repercussion in 15%.
  • (14) With Planned Parenthood poised to take center stage in the spending bill fight, women’s groups have warned that threatening to defund the organization is a “losing strategy” that will have repercussions come election day.
  • (15) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
  • (16) The mechanisms of infertility in varicoceles are still ill-defined; their repercussions are variable and unrelated to the degree of venous dilatations (a good number of such patients have no fertility problems).
  • (17) All working-aged patients in Piedmont receiving dialysis treatment were asked to fill in a questionnaire which aimed to highlight socio-working adjustment by assessing not only the optimal nature of dialytic treatment but also its repercussions in psycho-affective, socio-economic and cultural terms.
  • (18) In this field trial, the repercussions of 2 administration forms of oxfendazole, namely a single administration of a front-loaded device (group 1; n = 18) and a repeated administration of a 90.6 per cent oral suspension (group 2; n = 18), were compared in first season-grazing double-muscled fattening bulls.
  • (19) The results were viewed with regard to the importance of the complications, the chance of decanulation, the carrying time of the canula, adaptation to effort, functional respiratory tests, the value of language, intellectual and psychic repercussions, and repercussions on the social life.
  • (20) Because of its physical, psychological, interpersonal and financial repercussions, post-stroke depression is a sensitive issue facing patients, clinicians and society as a whole.