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Bird's design was based on a modification of an existing instrument for the local electrical treatment of hemiplegia, and consisted of a silver electrode and a zinc electrode connected by copper wire.
Adapting an existing instrument for cross-cultural study not only requires appropriate language translation; of equal importance, cultural and environmental contexts need to be considered as well.
Before deciding to use an existing instrument for Qol assessment, a researcher should answer the question: how will this questionnaire work in the particular circumstances of the research?
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Although this so-called process-based system was developed under the umbrella of the community environmental law it did not adapt existing instruments for assessing environmental risks of technical and industrial activities, e.g. environmental impact assessment, but kept the GMO risk assessment approaches that had been developed in the context of the technology development.
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We set out to improve on unstructured professional judgement and existing instruments for assessment of need for therapeutic security.
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An extensive literature search identified existing, feasible measurement instruments or subscales of existing instruments for patient perceived stiffness, developed or used within RA research.
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