illness severity

基本解释

A severity index of clinical symptoms and signs was used to grade illness severity.
结合临床资料，对临床症状和体征进行疾病严重程度评分。
Using this system, pediatricians in training were able to assess illness severity for children with fever almost as well as experienced pediatricians!
在这个系统中，那些正在接受培训的儿科医师能够像有经验的医师那样接触到很多因严重疾病而导致发烧的儿童。
Objective To establish the diagnostic criteria for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome(MODS) with illness severity score according to the evaluation of clinical MODS data from hosptal in Beijing.
目的通过分析国内多器官功能障碍综合征（ MODS）病例资料，建立适合中国国情的MODS诊断标准及病情严重度评分系统。

The reason on an absolute dollar basis that Medicare admin cost may be higher is because they use more services (medical services due to age and case mix severity of illness) and since a per cent of every dollar spend goes to admin service the absolute cost is higher.
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But hospitals criticized his results, arguing they mostly reflected patients' preexisting conditions, even though death rates were adjusted for the severity of a patient's illness before admission.
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