Each care cluster was further subcategorised within the questionnaire to form 47 distinct areas of care; therefore the overarching assessment activities care cluster was further broken down into assessment of mental state, assessment of role functioning, assessment of risk and so on.
The source of any research funding/sponsorship, or other vested interest such as personnel employment or contract, was not taken into account for risk-of-bias assessment (domain VI), but was reflected in the overarching assessment of risk of bias for each RCT.
The report, "Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services," is one of a suite of studies feeding into what will be the third National Climate Assessment, an overarching analysis of impacts on everything from transportation systems to public health.
From this resulted an overarching model for programmatic assessment, which we present in this paper.
Since the early days of international large-scale assessments, an overarching aim has been to use the world as an educational laboratory so countries can learn from one another and develop educational systems further.
The government published what purports to be a Domesday Book of environmental value, a gigantic overarching ecosystem assessment report.
The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) family of measures share an overarching conceptualisation of QoL in terms of handicap, or the impact of a reported health state on personal functioning and satisfaction within the person's social context [ 2].
Yet, from an overarching whole system perspective, there is a need to put these technical assessments in the broader context of social judgments that shape views on what is considered important and why.
Finally we have sought to find an overarching term that would cover all possible elements of the programme, such as assessments, tests, examinations, feedback, and dossiers.
