This index also took into account gestational age in order to consider a given number of visits to be adequate, a fact that minimizes the bias of erroneously attributing lower adequacy of prenatal care use to preterm pregnancies.
Elders could be faced with greater losses in the context of fewer social resources and a lower adequacy of social support, both in subjectively perceived support and frequency of contacts.
We assume that a more satisfactory PD prescription might reduce the psychosocial burden on incident PD patients, even though it would attain a lower adequacy index.
Moreover, improved resolution enables better needle tip visualisation during US-guided FNA/biopsy and obtaining an adequate cytological specimen from very small (i.e., 5 mm) nodules is feasible, although lower adequacy rates are reported from FNA of these smallest lesions [13].
This creates a vicious spiral: rural women, with lower incomes, use more private services with higher costs and lower adequacy.
As nutrition is often started gradually with little received in the first few days of ICU stay, we needed to account for the confounding effect of length of time in the ICU on nutrition adequacy (i.e., patients with short length of stays have lower adequacy than patients will longer length of stay).
The larger the adequacy rate the lower will be the incidence of negative peer effects.
Using a precedence from To et al [ 19], IA was dichotomized by combining the lowest and lower income adequacy categories to indicate (0 = low income adequacy), while the middle, upper middle and highest income adequacy groups were combined to indicate (1 = high income adequacy) [ 19].
First, Standard & Poor's downgraded MBIA's bond rating to the lower regions of junk, warning that the company's "capital adequacy is very weak," although it did have enough assets to meet all claims for at least a few years.
Studies have shown that constraining food budgets can lower the nutritional adequacy of the diet and that economic uncertainty may adversely affect people's food choices.
