The MEMENTA-Study shows the following strengths: with regard to the assessment of most important parameters of interest, the MEMENTA-Study uses well-established instruments such as the PAS-ADD Checklist 10 for screening for symptoms of psychiatric illness, the Mini PAS-ADD 11 for an in-depth assessment of mental health problems and the CANDID 13 for assessing specific needs of adults with ID.
If additional support at home is considered desirable or necessary, a multidisciplinary conference is held at the ward, assessing specific needs.
Existing data systems in the United States are either too crude (e.g., vital statistics), rely on administrative data (e.g., Medicare) or, because of their national scope (e.g., NHANES), lack the discriminatory power to assess specific needs and to evaluate community health activities at the state and local level.
The working group developed the 2013 survey by modifying the 2004 assessment tool and adding unique questions that reflected new WNV surveillance, prevention, and control guidance (20 ) and assessed specific staffing needs, presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and effect of federal WNV surveillance funding reductions on WNV surveillance activities over the past 5 years.
We assessed the specific needs for a database that would cover a wide range of outcomes measures for CAM research and considered a framework for such a database.
These include assigning a nurse case manager to assess specific caregiver support needs at time of diagnostic disclosure and to ensure follow-up of the caregiver-care-recipient dyad across their care trajectory [ 35].
The IOM committee recommended that HRSA and the CDC evaluate the cost and utility of redesigning studies to assess the specific needs and circumstances of people living with HIV.
To our knowledge this is the first study attempting to assess these specific needs in a systematic way.
In conjunction with the UN country team and the Salvadoran Government, UNICEF is working to assess the specific needs of children.
82 Small area mapping of diabetes risk may be a way of operationalising the recently published guidance on diabetes prevention from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which recommends the use of "local and national tools... to identify local communities at high risk of developing diabetes to assess their specific needs".
