Sentence examples for index deficits from inspiring English sources

Additional file 1: Frailty index deficits, descriptions, and values.

Searle et al. [ 5] proposed criteria for selecting and coding health measures for inclusion as variables in a frailty index: deficits should be age-related, associated with adverse outcomes, contain little missing data (a 5% threshold was proposed) and not saturate with age (i.e. was not present in most people by some age, typically operationalized as being present in >80% of people by age 80).

We searched the Cochrane, PubMed, and Embase databases using the terms 'frailty AND (index OR deficit OR deficits OR cumulative OR accumulation)'.

A frailty index counts deficits in health.

Here are some other factors uncorrelated with stock market performance: the market's overall price/earnings ratio (I've looked carefully at this one, across the globe and many time periods), high volatility as measured by the VIX index, gold, trade deficits, the dollar's level, consumer sentiment, investor sentiment as measured by the "Investors Intelligence" data.

Also absent from the accumulation of deficits index is any temporal ordering of deficits.

The following variables were computed: chronic disease index, health service deficits, socioeconomic status and current depression.

Pilotto et al 6 compared the accuracy of four measures of frailty (the SOF index, the cumulative deficits index, the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment [CGA], and the Multidimensional Prognostic Index [MPI]) in a sample of hospitalized older adults.

A single dementia predictive index of health deficits does not allow for specificity in relation to the type of dementia or the etiology of cognitive impairment.

Their results can possibly be explained by the fact that an index of accumulated deficits to measure frailty as used in their study, and containing 33 items (versus 5 and 3 items in the CHS and SOF, respectively) could be a more sensitive test for this purpose.

Water stress is calculated for each species on a daily time step and expressed as a transpiration deficit index (TDI).