Furthermore, many studies have used different assessments for diagnosis and outcome.
However, the SMD should only be used when pooling different assessments for the same outcome.
In the assessment of convergent/divergent validity, SOBDA baseline scores were compared with different assessments for the run-in population.
The GPAQ is unusual in that respondents are invited to provide two different assessments for certain aspects of their care (table 1).
Jürges et al. [ 59] found that a slight change in the verbal response categories for SRH elicited different assessments for the World Health Organization and United States questionnaire versions in five European countries, because people recalibrated SRH relative to the new response categories.
For VS-WBV, different assessments for static balance (Posturography on force plates, Balance index, single leg stand), for dynamic balance (Timed Up and Go (TUG) Test, Sensory Organization Test (SOT), Tandem walk test) and for functional balance (Tinetti Test/POMA) could be found.
Moody's divides universities into three groups – global, national and regional – and provides a different assessment of risks and opportunities for each group.
Studies have used different assessment tools for measuring psychological distress and therefore apparent prevalence rates for distress vary (Hopwood et al, 1998).
2 However, these results are difficult to compare quantitatively owing to the use of different assessment measures for evaluating pain and the use of different controls for evaluating the comparisons.
Differences in prevalence rates may be due to the use of different assessment instruments for diagnosing FGID.
