Qualitative research such as focus groups or in-depth interviews with members of the public that represent typical diseases in the general population should be conducted to ascertain the concepts that are most relevant to include in a HRQL utility measure.
This study therefore aimed to translate the Nurses Self-Concept Instrument (NSCI), and then ascertain the content and construct validity, and test retest and internal consistency reliability in the Chinese version of the NSCI (NSCI-C).
As part of a study that explored how midwives incorporate cultural sensitivity, into their practice, the literature was reviewed to ascertain how the concept of culture has been, defined and what recommendations have been made as to how to provide culturally appropriate care, to individuals from Indigenous and/or ethnic minority backgrounds.
Our aim in this study was not to define a specialist, nor to determine the nature of a previously demonstrated survival advantage, but to ascertain if the concept of specialisation was applicable in the postscreening era.
However, this exercise required in ascertaining the best concept capable of meeting the aforementioned design strategies based on system design criteria and objectives are time-consuming, energy sapping and strenuous.
The purpose of this pilot was to assess the tolerability and efficacy of ambroxol as a pharmacological chaperone in patients with symptomatic, type 1 Gaucher disease who present with measurable disease parameters but are not receiving enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in order to provide proof of concept and/or ascertain the suitability of ambroxol for a larger clinical trial.
We wanted to ascertain the sequencing of DTP and concept uses: we made these distinctions explicit by breaking down the overall visit time for each clinician into four segments of equal length, thereby suggesting a first contact and initial gathering of information in the first 25% of the visit time, and closure and presentation of treatment plan in the last 25% of the visit time.
It needs to be ascertained whether the concept can also be extended to other alternating-diet regimens, including alternating saturated/unsaturated fat, alternating high/low-fat or alternating high/low-carbohydrate.
The concept that human behaviour can ascertain the design of place and vice-versa had been discussed over decades.
A future clinical study including blinded assessments of stimulation effects on all Parkinsonian symptoms needs to ascertain this concept.
