Dependency is defined as being severely dependent on others in activities of daily living, or being significantly disabled; this corresponds to a Barthel Index score or a modified Rankin Scale grade 3-6 at 3-month follow-up.
However, mealtime announcement including its content is severely dependent on carbohydrate counting by patients, which could limit its usefulness in real-life settings.
In their ability to perform basic ADL, 63% were severely dependent, 25% were moderately dependent, and 10% were slightly dependent on other people.
Mild/moderate dependency was defined as a score of 4 or more on SADQ (no participants were severely dependent).
Antibody cross-reactivity testing (essential in influenza vaccine selection and characterization) is currently severely dependent on the standard hemagglutination inhibition assay (HI).
For this reason, dementia patients were excluded if they were blind, deaf, bedridden, or severely dependent on care (3rd care level).
She thinks more data is needed to be truly conclusive on the Bacloville study but so far clinical trials, she says, support the idea that the more severely dependent on alcohol you are, the more likely you are to get benefits from Baclofen.
In one meeting, a local homeless charity heavily dependent on public money told the mayor that its operations would be severely constrained with reduced funding.
Although such an approach has the potential to improve the mapping accuracy of RNA-seq reads for non-B6 mouse strains, compared with using the B6 reference, it is severely limited by and dependent on the accuracy and coverage of within-strain genomic variations.
In the case of nonsymmetric conjoined twins, one is fairly well developed, but the other is severely underdeveloped, often tiny, and dependent on the larger twin for nutrition.
