In this study we evaluated the Cellometer Image Cytometer as an alternative instrument for the FC-XM.
As an alternative instrument, we use variation in state licensure requirements for medical laboratory technicians.
However, it would be useful to validate the scale against an alternative instrument for measuring children's inhibited temperament.
PRFQ-1 – The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire-1 [ 78] is used as an alternative instrument for assessing RF via self-report.
This utility score of 0.68 was also reported in a Canadian study using an alternative instrument to measure quality of life, the SF-6D.
Risk screening for delirium was defined as: having used the screening instrument provided by the FEP (Table 1) or an alternative instrument, such as the Groninger Frailty Indicator [ 28] and the Identification of Seniors At Risk or ISAR [ 29].
In this paper, in contrast, we base our analysis on an alternative instrument, the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations (PSCHO) tool, which we believe better captures certain underlying characteristics of Chinese culture that could be important determinants of patient safety climate.
The combination of widespread discontentment and exhaustion with high work-esteem may be suggestive of an experience of work that differs from the "existential" work-centered professional culture around which the MBI was developed in the West, and perhaps the necessity of measuring burnout in the region with an alternative instrument developed locally.
"Modern civil society, modern technology has made possible alternative instruments, other sorts of teeth," he said.
(Partch is known for his explorations of alternative instruments and pitches; this friendly little stringed instrument looks like a small cello).
There is therefore an urgent need to develop alternative instruments, focused on active management acts.
