Because of the different transfer mechanism of OH-PCBs, the infant will have a body burden, expressed per body weight of OH-PCBs, of 50 70% of their mothers, an intriguing observation making OH-PCBs possibly more important from a risk assessment viewpoint than initially thought.
Therefore, in the interest of scientific rigor, protocols to assess the overall effectiveness of therapy should include a priori specification of the comprehensive measure of health and a credible assessment viewpoint for the purposes of primary analysis of study results.
We therefore suggest a generic term, 'decision tool', to demonstrate that these decision-making aids, which may seem very different from a technical perspective, are conceptually the same from a health technology assessment viewpoint.
The increasing complexity of information and telecommunications systems and networks is reaching a level beyond human ability, mainly from the security assessment viewpoint.
The assessment results of the proposed method are conservative, which is preferable from the security assessment viewpoint.
Questionnaire versions are defined by language, mode of administration, assessment viewpoint and health-status recall duration.
Study design should define the assessment viewpoint (self or proxy), and thus who answers HUI questionnaires.
These criteria include the mode of questionnaire administration, assessment viewpoint, language, and health-status recall timeframe or assessment period.
There are 16 versions of HUI questionnaires in the original English language version based on mode of administration, assessment viewpoint and duration of the health status assessment period.
Measurements of these types have been shown to vary by assessment viewpoint and, although many different viewpoints are valid, the patient perspective is considered to be one of the most important.
Versions of HUI questionnaires are defined by combinations of the 4 factors listed and described in detail below: mode of administration; assessment viewpoint; duration of health status assessment period; and language of questionnaire.
