0 a person or thing that is considered or used as a substitute for another person or thing. -- erstatning; surrogat
Because surrogates often help dying patients access care, incomplete knowledge of hospice may be an important barrier to hospice services.
Perhaps the instrument lacked sufficient sensitivity to measure improvements in surrogate accuracy.
Thus, soil moisture monitored from burned forests may be used as surrogates for unburned adjacent forests.
A variety of reasons might be given to prefer one or another of the surrogates listed above.
The most common reason for ethics consultation for our ethics committee is when patients, or their surrogates, demand treatments that will provide no measurable benefit.
They found that their model predicted patients' treatment preferences with essentially the same accuracy as surrogates.
None of the surrogate-reared rhesus infants exhibited the normal diurnal decrease in cortisol over the daytime hours.
Participants spoke of the time they spent with neighbours' children, some even described this relationship as being like a surrogate grandparent.
