Sentence examples for as a specific instrument from inspiring English sources

Background: The EPDS is a 10-items self-report scale designed as a specific instrument to detect postnatal depression.

Moreover, the same authors also assessed the impact of DR with the Vision and Quality of Life Index as a specific instrument for vision and established its validity for measuring the impact that this complication can have on the quality of life of type 1 and 2 diabetic patients.

Before evaluating the efficacy of ChEIs on BPSD, one must examine their natural history as measured by a specific instrument such as the NPI.

A specific instrument such as Stoma-QOL has its self-evident strengths as compared with generic instruments by virtue of its increased sensitivity to the unique problems related to a particular disease.

In this regard, Locker et al. [ 25] reaffirmed the need for a specific instrument, such as CPQ11 14 for a more accurate evaluation of the different perceptions of orthodontic conditions, and in turn, emphasized the need for further studies on the usefulness of these instruments.

Secondly a disadvantage of a specific instruments as the DASH questionnaire is that it does not take into account the history of patients filling out the questionnaire, which can point out lower DASH scores not related to the fracture [29].

With anxiety and distress expected to be the principal morbidity, TOMBOLA employed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) as a specific measurement instrument.

This may be as a result of its use as a joint-specific instrument that was developed to minimise the effects of comorbidity.

A secondary finding was that the VAS health-rating instrument appears more appropriate as a disease-specific instrument, as in this study, patients did not necessarily assign the primary disease (arthritis in most cases) as being the most prominent in affecting their well-being.

Further, VAS health-rating instrument appears more appropriate as a disease-specific instrument, as being the most prominent in affecting patients' well-being, and also the five-point self-rated health scale showed that the health state of patients with co-morbidity was worse than the patients without co-morbidity.

As well, specific instruments to measure the complex and multidimensional phenomena need to be developed.