We conclude that adding moral sensitivity increases the descriptive, prescriptive, and pedagogical usefulness of the principal-agent model.
In the absence of any clear and well established explanation, the findings are not even causally descriptive, and of limited usefulness for enacting meaningful policy, where possible policies could range from wealth redistribution to providing books for children with fewer resources.
While the absence of useful diagnostic information in these data sets is a limiting factor, the improvement in case finding and usefulness in descriptive profiling of high-risk patients to help in intervention design (eg, high rates of A&E use rates, high rates of missed outpatient appointments) suggests that their inclusion is clearly merited.
Descriptive statistics were used to assess the nurses' knowledge about the usefulness of preventive measures in 2003.
We undertook a small-scale evaluation using a qualitative descriptive design to explore the feasibility and usefulness of an authentic assessment item that focused on a common clinical scenario in midwifery practice, female catheterisation.
Who decides when a descriptive term has outlived its usefulness?
In contrast to their usefulness in the descriptive cataloging of analog documents, physical attributes such as format and size are highly variable in the milieu of electronic documents and therefore are meaningless in a universal document-naming scheme.
They criticize the usefulness of the descriptive concept as defined by Weber for neglecting people's second order beliefs about legitimacy their beliefs, not just about the actual legitimacy of a particular political institution, but about the justifiability of this institution, i.e. about what is necessary for legitimacy.
However, over and above basic tallies, the usefulness of these descriptive data for epidemiological research is constrained by the classification system applied, which for haematological malignancies is largely rooted in the gradual recognition of disease entities at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Descriptive statistics will be used to analyse process data on program feedback such as the usefulness of program components.
