Readability formulas provide an objective assessment of difficulty, usually expressed in 'grade-level' equivalents.
Consequently, Kellman et al. use image features to predict "expert performance and subjective assessment of difficulty in fingerprint comparisons" [11].
Particularly, assessment of difficulty in breathing and questions about the presence of night sweats, cough and weight loss was done in only half of the consultations.
If an assessment tool is to be clinically useful, in addition to being a sensitive and valid assessment of difficulty, it must also be efficient in terms of cost/time to administer, relative to information obtained through using it.
Both devices were well tolerated on VAS assessment of difficulty of breathing although this was higher for the BVM than the NRM (median VAS 1.85/10 compared to 1.1/10; p=0.041).
Future investigations will include a more rigorous assessment of testing difficulties and enable investigation of the relationship between cognitive impairment and difficulty understanding and completing preference testing.
Despite the gloomy assessment of the difficulties faced by working families, the charity welcomed a slowdown in the rate at which people are falling below a "decent living standard".
WASHINGTON — A sense of economic gloom gripped Washington on Tuesday as President Bush urged Americans not to lose faith, the Federal Reserve chairman offered a mostly bleak assessment of the difficulties ahead for the economy, and the administration's latest effort to help the housing sector faced tough questioning in Congress.
Needless to say, the brief moment of liberal euphoria that followed the collapse of the communism in the Soviet bloc has given way to a sober assessment of the difficulties of implementing liberal practices outside the Western world.
Assessment of hearing difficulties or carotid bruit was only identified within six websites (Table 2).
