Table 1 Schematic representation of the Boolean logic algorithm used for classifying residents of Belgian nursing homes into five levels of dependency based on their item scores of the Belgian Evaluation Scale (BES) for the activities of daily living.
Items of the BES | Levels of dependency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
O | A | B | C | Cd | |||
Physical dependency | Difficulties in orientation | Physical dependency | Difficulties in orientation | Physical dependency | Difficulties in orientation | ||
Bathing | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND/OR | AND | AND | AND/OR | AND | AND | |
Dressing | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | |
Transferring | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND | AND | AND/OR | AND | AND | AND/OR | |
Toileting, | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | |
Continence | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND/OR | AND/OR | |
Feeding | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | |
Orientation in time | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 |
AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | AND | |
Orientation in the living environment | ≤ 2 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 | ≤ 2 | ≥ 3 |