However, since agents may transform the total resources devoted to health in a different way, something that affects their assessment of consumption-expenditure bundles, the single-crossing property is only assured among individuals who have the same health disposition.
In addition, the portal survey technique performs a temporal evaluation of substance use and provides pre- and post-assessment of consumption, assuring the most reliable measure of substance effects.
Its use for assessment of alcohol consumption has been evaluated with clinical and non-clinical populations [ 52] and can generate precise information about patterns and variability [ 52].
However, we believe that our comprehensive approach of using ultrasound scan, assessment of alcohol consumption and hepatotoxic medication use, and liver screen will identify the vast majority of patients with NAFLD, potentially missing only those with minimal hepatic steatosis due to regression of steatosis in the advanced stages of the disease process.
Under the methods section, the seventh sentence in the paragraph "Assessment of fruit consumption" should have been truncated to read: "We calculated total whole fruit consumption by summing the consumption levels of the 10 individual fruits".
For the judgment of the validity and reliability of the measurement of alcohol use (criterion K), requirements concerning assessment of alcohol consumption were taken into account [ 21].
However, we cannot rule out the possibility of under-reporting of alcohol consumption, in particular among heavy drinkers, which is common in the assessment of alcohol consumption in questionnaire-based surveys.
This study did not specifically assess CHW adherence to RDT results, but a retrospective assessment of drug consumption, to be published elsewhere, indicates strong compliance with prescription of ACTs.
Assessment reactivity occurs when the assessment of alcohol consumption itself increases self-awareness of alcohol problems and thus triggers reductions in alcohol consumption [ 47].
