Health needs assessment describes health problems of a population and determines priorities for the most effective use of resources by utilizing epidemiological, qualitative and comparative methods.
WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a sweeping reform of the nation's patent laws on Thursday, sending to President Obama a bill that changes the system for determining priority for inventions at the patent office and provides more financing for an agency beset by application backlogs and outdated computer systems.
It is useful in epidemiological surveys to identify the need for orthodontic treatment, and also as a screening device to determine priority for subsidized orthodontic treatment.
A study carried out in the UK that sought to explore the views of patients on a waiting list for joint replacement also found that pain and disability were mentioned as the factors that should determine priority for knee replacement.
Possible criterion to determine priority for further candidate gene analysis can be differential expression of the gene in the target organ, known physiological role to the trait (Ron et al. 2007) and positional overlapping with QTL of interest.
We first evaluated the compound intrinsic sensitivity of six representative neurotransmitters to determine priority for the optimization process (i.e., ease in ionization and detection in the MALDI-IMS experiment), namely, ACh, GABA, glutamate, dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine (Fig. 1).
In this limited study, multivariate analysis of questionnaire and biochemical marker data does successfully identify individuals at "high risk' of harbouring gastric or colorectal cancer within a symptomatic population and may have a role in determining priority for investigation for a symptomatic individual.
