Nutritional status is best assessed using a combination of measures on a regular basis as recommended by national guidelines [ 6].
The global rating items were best assessed using a four-category response format, as in the VF&QOL questionnaire, given its high range and even categories.
These results also suggest that the psychosocial functioning of these caregivers is best assessed using measures designed specifically to evaluate illness-related psychosocial functioning (e.g. the Parent Experience of Child Illness, Impact on Family Scale).
However, atrophy is best assessed using two time points, therefore the absence of associations between atrophy and tCBF should be replicated in a longitudinal study.
Thus, OGTT-induced levels of incretins, compared to glucose, may exert more prolonged effects on the β-cell which are best assessed using indices covering the entire OGTT period.
The findings that combined expression of HIF-1 or GLUT1 with CAIX retained predictive ability supports the notion that tumour hypoxia may be best assessed using multiple markers.
The motor component is possibly best assessed using simple reaction time tasks and free Tapping tasks in which timing is minimized.
Although the two former variables are best assessed using workers as study units, efficiency requires managers or employers as study units.
The effects of such variables are best assessed using the methods that have been established for examining small area variation; this was beyond the scope of the current study.
Contextual factors are best assessed using methods that engage diverse perspectives, consider multiple levels, consider changes over time, look at both formal and informal systems and culture, and assess interactions between contextual factors and process and outcomes measures [ 24], all of which are hallmarks of ethnography.
