NASI's solutions--which provided the basis for reform now recommended by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging--include options for boosting benefits adequacy, increasing the Social Security Trust Fund's solvency and benefit reductions.
Intolerance was associated with poor nutritional adequacy, increased mortality, longer ventilator dependence and increased length of ICU stay (P < 0.05) (Table 1).
Kt/V, a widely used index of dialysis adequacy, increased in years 3 9 by 11%, 2%, and 4% in Units A, B, and C respectively.
Numerous studies have documented that an increased risk for death and hospitalization was associated with lower levels of dialysis adequacy, increased anemia, lower serum albumin values, and the use of a vascular access other than an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) for hemodialysis.
Case studies show that the generation adequacy indices increase with the correlation of wind speed and WTG forced outage rate (FOR).
The inadequacy rate tended to increase with increasing pain severity: 79, 84 and 88% among patients reporting mild, moderate and severe pain, respectively, possibly as effect of more stringent criteria for adequacy with increasing pain severity.
Past studies have shown an increase in cytologic adequacy with an increase in NAF volume [ 9].
However, I strongly hope that you will either agree to commence discussions with us now or remove all obstacles so that your shareholders can make their own determinations about the adequacy of our increased offer.
After floating new shares in Hong Kong, the directors of Minsheng expected the bank's capital adequacy ratio to increase to more than 12% from 8.57%, while core tier 1 capital will advance to about 9% from the initial level of 6.02%, approaching the international standard.
The 2002 regulation replaces the previous 1987 regulation and increases the adequacy and fairness of compensation as well as the procedure for resolving medical disputes [ 6].
