"I do not," Jackson writes, "set myself up as one to appraise the mental processes of the president" -- a credo with few, if any, adherents today.
∎ At a system level, patients and their relational networks can act as collective agents to conceptualize expectations about behaviors and tasks, to build and reinforce social networks, enact delegated tasks, and appraise the effects of these processes.
However, it is important to describe the doping mechanism of BCP thoroughly in order to be able to master its synthesis and then to fully appraise the benefit of the doping process.
The objective of this study is to critically appraise the quality of the translation process, cross-cultural validation and the measurement properties of translated versions of neck-specific questionnaires.
(Schellingerhout JM, Heymans MW, Verhagen AP, De Vet HC, Koes BW, Terwee CB: Measurement properties of disease-specific questionnaires in patients with neck pain: a systematic review, submitted) The purpose of this study is to critically appraise the quality of the translation process, cross-cultural validation and the measurement properties of translated versions of neck-specific questionnaires.
During the process of appraising a RCT, readers should evaluate the following: 1. Clear, appropriate research question .
[Marcus: diagnosed 2007; aged 65 at interview; treatment: potentially curative surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy] Part of the process of appraising a symptom is to seek a 'normal' explanation for its occurrence, 29 and it was common among our interviewees to attribute symptoms to things other than a new illness.
I sometimes appraise the relevance of a classic, and amuse myself in the process, by imagining the updates required in order to adapt this book to film for a modern audience.
Quality assessment forms an important part of the NS process in order to systematically appraise the methodological quality of studies and determine the robustness of the synthesis.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the process of systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous research findings as the basis for clinical decisions" (Rosenberg and Donald 1995).
