Sentence examples for a tool to appraise from inspiring English sources
The approach developed here provides managers with a tool to appraise risk and examine possible impacts of management interventions designed to reduce or manage risk.
For this reason the researchers saw it fit to develop a tool to appraise management.
Therefore, the SEIQoL-DW cannot be considered as a quality of life instrument, but more as a tool to appraise individually relevant determinants of quality of life.
The aim of this study was therefore to develop a tool to appraise the reporting quality and methodological quality of case series and cohorts of lower limb arthroplasty with emphasis on revision for aseptic prosthesis loosening by means of a Delphi approach.
While checklists exist for evaluating the methodological quality of a range of non-randomised studies, there is no consensus on how to incorporate a single tool to appraise different study types in a review.
We did not use a validated tool to appraise study quality but developed our own tool based on a previous Cochrane review, as there is no tool that can be considered the 'gold standard' for this kind of question.
The latter are used as a surrogate tool to appraise the parametric uncertainty in the estimation process.
Therefore, a method based on the Fisher information matrices (FIM) is frequently utilized as a surrogate tool to appraise the parametric uncertainty in terms of the variances and confidence bounds of the estimated parameters (Hogg et al. 2005).
Results were reproducible and trustworthy as LOOCV showed stability of the model: percentage of well-classified hospitals is a good tool to appraise validity of statistical models.
We used the Cochrane risk of bias tool to appraise clinical study reports and a custom built data extraction form for recording information relevant to this appraisal (such as dates of participant recruitment and date of trial protocol).
To determine risk of bias in a standardized way, we used the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool to appraise randomized controlled trials.
