However, use of the Kessner index [ 5] and the graduated index of PNC utilization (GINDEX)[ 7] have largely been abandoned because the restricted nine-visit coding limitation of these indices inaccurately classifies the PNC utilization of term and post-term pregnancies [ 8, 9].
The utilization of short-term memory traces in these more complex tasks is clearly different from the processes involved in short-term habituation.
Neither of the interventions one, a brief motivational psychotherapy, the other, a series of treatment-related videos is found to be significantly superior to treatment as usual in increasing the likelihood of utilization of long-term treatment.
This is not in opposition to the direct-matching hypothesis, but it puts in perspective a stricto sensu utilization of the term direct.
Data on utilization of long-term follow-up care beyond five years of breast cancer patients are relatively rare as well as on factors associated with the utilization of long-term follow-up care [ 7, 11].
For example FP commodity stock outs, notably implants, resulted in low uptake and under utilization of long term FP services.
Self-report questions covered the utilization of long-term care services, inpatient services, outpatient services, and pharmaceuticals.
These findings confirm that utilization of long-term care is not primarily disease-related but related to the consequences of disease: impairments, disabilities and handicaps [ 36].
Our results showed that the KORA-Age study underestimated the mean utilization of long-term care, outpatient and inpatient services, whereas the estimated utilization of pharmaceuticals was very close to the comparative claims data.
The utilization of short-term institutional stays after hospitalization was similar in the municipalities when including ICH stays in the ICHM, whereas the differences between the municipalities in long-term stays and hour-based care were significant.
