The size of the firm is operationalized using a number of measures, such as, sales, total assets and number of employees.
Periodontitis extent and severity were operationalized using a variety of methods, all of which are currently used in literature studying the association between periodontitis and other diseases.
The change construct was defined as the movement of an organization from its present to a future state, and was operationalized using a four-item scale.
Expected QOL values in this study were operationalized using a regression model, taking into account initial QOL and changes in health status, stressful events, and coping resources.
As well, our data are somewhat dated, although we believe that the data are appropriate for documenting baseline measures of quality of care by RWP status, and demonstrating how the Institute of Medicine's recommendation to use population-based data to evaluate quality of care can be operationalized using data from a population-based, clinical outcomes surveillance project.
Adding to the complexity of this hierarchical model of PS, TS, and TS-M, each class of instrumentation can be operationalized using measures that differ on a context-specific to context-general continuum.
In the present study, safety will be operationalized using these two dimensions [ 63].
Trauma-exposure severity will be operationalized using data from the BTQ, 2001 Violence Questionnaire, and updated adult violence exposure.
This idea can be operationalized using the statistical concept of discriminatory accuracy (DA) that is routinely used to evaluate diagnostic tests and is increasingly being applied to the study of biomarkers and risk factors in epidemiology.
Unfortunately, trial eligibility criteria tend to be written without concern for their computability, thus limiting their ability to be operationalized using rule-engines or database query languages in or in order to satisfy the logical conditions defined by the criteria in an automated manner.
