What's the difference between safety and sickerness?
Safety
Definition:
(n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
(n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
(n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
(n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(2) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(3) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(5) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(6) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(7) We evaluated the safety and efficacy of a conjugate vaccine that links the H. influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide to the outer-membrane protein complex (OMPC) of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B.
(8) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(9) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(10) In 20 adult patients with asthma, we evaluated bronchodilation to a single administration of metered-dose glycopyrrolate aerosol (GA) to ascertain its onset and duration of action along with evaluation of safety.
(11) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(12) It is clearly demonstrated that, although it will be very difficult to single out effects of specific safety measures, the combined safety actions taken by a society are very effective in getting the safety factor under control.
(13) A total of 17 patients suffering from musculoskeletal disease were included in a double blind study to compare the efficacy and safety of piroxicam and indomethacin.
(14) Safety was assessed by clinical follow-up, continuous recording of arterial oxygen saturation during the procedure with a digital oximeter, and measuring FEV1, FEF25-75, and FVC just before and 5 min after bronchoscopy.
(15) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(16) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(17) In contrast, safety assessment is relatively standardized across many pharmacologic classes of agents.
(18) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
(19) To determine the efficacy and safety of hepatitis B vaccine (Hevac B) given intradermally, 125 Nigerians (aged 1 year to 45 years), who were negative for hepatitis B virus markers, and randomised into two groups were vaccinated.
(20) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
Sickerness
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sikerness
Example Sentences:
(1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(2) As a generalization, younger, more rehabilitatable diabetics have been offered a kidney transplant, while older, often sicker diabetics have been relegated to CAPD, leaving most diabetics in the subset managed by maintenance hemodialysis.
(3) Second, there was a 27% increase in the mortality rate of residents living in the nursing home for 1 to 5 years suggesting that the population had become sicker between 1982 and 1985.
(4) This can lead to what some refer to as a “death spiral” – or a collapse of a local exchange in a place where the insurance pool keeps getting smaller, sicker and more expensive.
(5) It is clear from analyzing the patient profile of this subset of patients from large clinical reviews that in general they are older and sicker and have a higher incidence of cardiovascular risk factors representing more extensive atherosclerosis.
(6) Those payments were established by Obamacare to cover patients that turned out to be sicker than predicted.
(7) He is critically ill, a good deal sicker than our previous patients, and perhaps sicker than any patient that has been transported from west Africa ,” Wilson said earlier.
(8) Regression and correlation analysis of psychopathological and EP measurements in hyperkinetic children revealed the following findings: the shorter the latencies and the higher the amplitudes, the sicker was the child.
(9) Mothers of sicker infants, those who had claimed difficulties with NICU staff, and those who felt less attached to their infant more often described painful reminders of this crisis.
(10) Cost containment efforts which have shifted significant portions of the inpatient population to ambulatory areas have resulted in an inpatient population which is sicker and more procedure-intensive.
(11) In short, they say, "The poor and unemployed get sicker quicker."
(12) Such findings can lead to the conclusion that women are the "sicker sex" in terms of objective health status.
(13) In addition, these patients were sicker on initial unit discharge as manifested by higher heart and respiratory rates and lower hematocrit values.
(14) Just after the turn of the 20th century, a few internships were begun by hospitals in Seattle and Spokane to help with the care of their sicker patients in the tradition of Eastern teaching hospitals.
(15) Thus, the difference between the original treatment groups remained, despite that treatment with enalapril was made available to all surviving patients and that those in the group with enalapril were sicker at baseline than those in the group with placebo.
(16) If you make it harder to go to the doctor, they just get sicker and it costs more.” Both Turnbull and Shorten committed not to privatise Australia Post.
(17) I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I really wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Martin: ‘I just kept getting sicker and sicker and I wasn’t able to see a doctor until I got the insurance.’ Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Martin Once she was able to see a doctor, Martin was diagnosed with Lyme disease and two other tick-borne diseases.
(18) Compared to normative data published on the first four devices, the combined patients were far 'sicker' in nearly all comparisons (P less than or equal to 0.01).
(19) The results are consistent with previous research on differences between disciplines and with the flight of psychiatrists from CMHCs but cast doubt on the hypothesis that psychiatrists see sicker patients than psychologists see because of differences in reimbursement between the two disciplines.
(20) Patients with MCS show numerous physiological and biochemical abnormalities and are generally sicker than a control group of allergic patients.