Higher scores are indicative of more severe problems; (e) EuropASI (European version of the Addiction Severity Index) in the prior month.
Overall, weekend admissions were associated with more severe problems in terms of admission type, admission source, and All Patient Refined Disease Related Group severity status (table 1).
Level 5 is for more severe problems like a broken bone.
That strategy works, he noted, when the economy is growing, but can create more severe problems if another recession hits.
Alan Rodriguez lives near the Beach Bar, which the study says "represents one of the more severe problems" as far as nightclubs and their residential neighbors are concerned.
About five years ago, having weathered their own children's childhood diseases and puppy love, they were ready to become foster parents to children who had more severe problems.
The financial system is vulnerable to more severe problems, but the credit squeeze has eased a bit since the administration's bailout was proposed.
The center is equipped to handle more severe problems than a pediatrician's office, Dr. Schor said, but it cannot provide the trauma care of a hospital emergency room.
The agency said the drug's label must carry a so-called black-box warning against using it for people with more severe problems.
As a result, the researchers said, the patients risk more severe problems, and may end up requiring even more expensive treatment.
Dr. Dall'Agnol Modesto said Brazil needed more family doctors and general practitioners because patients swamped specialists with routine issues, increasing the wait for those with more severe problems.
