Despite these limitations, the study has the advantages of complementing participants' (subjective) self-assessments with evaluations by external observers and by SPs; including evaluations at different points in time, namely before and after the program; using two different samples of participants; and including SPs in controlled situations, as well as RPs in real situations.
The great majority of Care Group projects that have been implemented so far have independently conducted end-of-project evaluations led by external evaluation consultants.
This present independent evaluation conducted by external experts aims at generating evidences for promoting the generalization of the QCFS approach.
Evaluation gap: the lack of established, recurrent evaluations conducted by external authorities was lamented by (Kleiman et al., 1999) in all areas of conservation, and is only too evident here.
Our data on the use of frameworks derived from evaluation reports mostly relates to large, formal evaluations conducted by external consultants, who may not have chosen to work with existing frameworks.
If necessary, we will then submit the book for evaluation by our external committee of science historians and take any appropriate measures.
These investigations comprise a review of individual case reports (including an independent evaluation by an external expert panel), quantitative analyses assessing potential associations, systematic reviews of aggregate safety data and a literature review.
Physicians and administrative staff from 26 public or private general hospitals of the 40 hospitals with a sufficient level of oncology activity located in the experimental region, agreed to participate in the network and accepted the principles of the implementation of CPGs and evaluation by an external audit procedure.
A formative evaluation was carried out by external evaluations between the end of August and early October 2009.
The method evaluation was done by external standard calibration with linearity range between 0.5 and 3 mg/kg, with correlation coefficient 0.99, limit of detection (LOD) ranges between 0.02 and 4.5 ng/g, and limit of quantification (LOQ) ranges between 0.2 and 45 ng/g.
