0 relating to a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances of getting better
But the manuscript context of prognostic texts suggests otherwise.
Uncertainty, a dominant influence in diagnostics and prognostics, must be accommodated and managed.
Unlike prognostics, which simply provide information to correlate natural phenomena and human activities, divinations require action, usually the manipulation of numbers, to answer a question.
Over a period of hours, her condition evolved from prognostic uncertainty to the diagnosis of brain death and considerations of organ donation.
To examine the association of putative prognostic markers with outcome and the interaction of these markers with treatment.
The most important is ignorance of prognostic and indication criteria at forwarding workplaces and the aversion of neonatologists to all new therapeutic interventions.
One prognostic factor highlighted by this review has been nodal involvement.
Further research is required to define prognostic models to select patients most likely to respond.
