The phrase "a quick index" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a brief or concise list or summary of information, often found at the beginning or end of a document.
Example: "At the end of the report, we included a quick index to help readers find key topics easily."
Alternatives: "a brief overview" or "a fast reference".
This sounds, perhaps, like a Dutch shopping list, but it's really a quick index to the subjects of Pollan's new book.
A quick index of success for the travel business (but not specifically business travelers) is that at many airports, you need a reservation not only for a seat on the plane, but also for a place to park the car.
The search pushed me to make a quick index of the major celebrity crimes of the 60s and 70s in Monterrey.
For example, Mantyla and Nilsson [30] conducted a population based study of prospective memory and as a result many of their older participants scored withing the impaired range on the Mini Mental State Examination [31], a quick index of possible dementia.
To illustrate, Mantyla and Nilsson [61] conducted a population-based study of prospective memory and inspection of participants characteristics reveals that many participants scored within the impaired range on the Mini Mental State Examination (Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975) that serves as a quick index of possible dementia.
Forbes: Won't all this filtering be done by software agents?; No. Basically, search engines just maintain a map of the Web, and they give you a quick indexing reference to the words you want.
In contrast, non-obese PCOS patients only noted significant changes in markers of hyperandrogenemia and a borderline increase in QUICK index.
For a quick cultural index of this story's allure, check out the hundreds of hotly contested Enron lots on Ebay, where the bankrupt company's stock certificates have gone for north of $200 -- a multiple of 300 times the last known value of a share of the stock itself.
VR is a quick bedside index that identifies such patients and the study shows that it is clinically useful in mechanically ventilated patients.
For investigators who want a quick, biological index to assess PCE burden, blood sampling is the optimum method; however, the invasive nature of blood collection may make recruitment more difficult.
The advantage of VR is that it is a quick bedside index that identifies patients with severe disease, and the study shows that it is clinically useful in mechanically ventilated patients.
