Sentence examples for evaluate the indicators from inspiring English sources

The study had a cross-sectional design, which made it difficult to evaluate the indicators of risk for OHRQoL.

It was not deemed necessary to evaluate the indicators that had been developed for or adapted from the ECOEHIS project because these had already been tested.

The request to evaluate the indicators was sent to officials from the ministry of health and/or environment in the participating countries together with the methodology sheet and the contact data of the national partner institution.

The authority coefficient (Cr) was used to assess the degree of the experts' authority in relation to their technical ability to evaluate the indicators as determined by two factors, the judgment criteria for the indicators (Ca) (Additional file 1: Table S2) and the experts' familiarity with the indicators (Cs) (Additional file 1: Table S3) [ 56].

While some efforts have been made by the WHO to monitor the VISION 2020 process indicators, this has not been done systematically and, to our knowledge, the present study is the first to evaluate the indicators in depth for a specific country.

SROC was used to summarize the overall test performance; and AUC was calculated to evaluate the indicator.

Nine indicators were found not feasible; the administrative data required to evaluate the indicator were available in less than 70% of cases.

In adherence to the RAND method, the core panel critically evaluated the indicators with high agreement in step four.

In a first elimination round the researchers evaluated the indicators on the provisional list against four criteria: Relevance: covering an essential aspect of a dimension; Precision: precise formulation assuring easy-to-fill data (preferably numerical); Flexibility: likely to fit in various health systems in Europe; Discriminating power: yielding a range and variety of possible answers.

Sensitivity, specificity and predictive values were calculated to evaluate the nutritional indicators according to the combined index.

The overall objective of this paper is to evaluate the MERLIN indicator and sub-indicators, an assessment method developed by French agricultural advisors.