The phrase "a need for brief" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity.
Example: "There is a need for a brief overview of the project before we proceed."
Alternatives: "a need for a summary" or "a requirement for brevity."
For primary care use, there is a need for brief and simple questionnaires for structured patient-reported outcomes.
There is a need for brief effective treatment of social phobia and Imagery Rescripting (IR) is a potential candidate.
There is a need for brief instruments to ascertain the diagnosis of major depressive disorder.
There is a need for brief, cost-effective and timely interventions that address both maternal psychological distress and interactive behaviour.
There is a need for brief, cost-effective and timely interventions that address specific processes that may affect infant development.
Although there is an increasingly wide array of solid measures that independently cover different components of well-being (e.g., life satisfaction, positive emotions, psychological functioning, and social well-being) [ 2, 5, 6], there is still a need for brief, comprehensive measures that can be used to make rapid, reliable, and valid assessments [ 7].
There is a need for a brief geriatric assessment (BGA) tool to screen elderly patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) for their risk of a long hospital stay.
There is a need for a brief screen for personality disorders that can be used in routine clinical settings and epidemiological surveys.
There is a need for using brief instruments such as the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the PHQ-2[ 3], to ascertain the diagnosis of major depressive disorder.
First and foremost, 82% see a need for better briefs, while 67% see an opportunity to align client/agency teams better; almost half of the respondents, 47%, believe that training is necessary, while 41% say that clients need to do a better job of fighting silos at their end.
Our previous work has demonstrated that there is a significant need for brief lifestyle interventions among the clients of GCHNs, as they carry a large burden of chronic disease and associated risk factors and these clients may also be open to changing their risk-related lifestyle practices [ 20].
