It employed a five point ordinal scale (translated as "Very good", "Good", "Satisfactory", "Bad" and "Very Bad") to describe health status.
"Occasionally the insertion of copper pipe can produce particularly bad results and despite satisfactory pH control it may be impossible to obtain any satisfactory samples," they wrote.
In most school districts, virtually all teachers, good or bad, routinely get a satisfactory evaluation, it found.
On one question, asking if current economic conditions were good, satisfactory or bad, the overall response was slightly better than satisfactory, with the most enthusiasm from North America, Asia and the former Soviet Union.
An idealized distribution of elevated point sources can also be satisfactory, but bad inversions may result if placement of the token sources is biased in the cross-plot direction relative to the actual source(s).
Boack et al. [ 2] presented satisfactory or bad clinical results in 34% of cases also using the Zwipp score.
Girls evaluate their health condition to be worse compared to boys (27% of girls reported their health to be satisfactory or bad compared to 14% of boys).
Interestingly, the patients who reported a somewhat good health state (i.e. good, very good, or excellent) showed PACIC scores larger than those who reported a deteriorated health state (i.e. satisfactory or bad), respectively 2.6 (SD=0.73) and 2.3 (SD=0.7).
