Sentence examples similar to existing items needed from inspiring English sources

To be useful in patients with severe functional loss, the existing item bank may need to be enriched with newly calibrated items at the lower end of the scale, as indicated by the percentage of children scoring at the measurement floor on the custom short forms.

Members were also asked to submit qualitative comments, develop additional items as needed, and propose improvements to existing items.

However, psychometric properties of KINDL-Kid may need to be improved either by developing new items or modifying existing items.

The existing medical benefits advisory committee regularly reviews new items proposed for the Medicare schedule, and on occasion existing items.

* Adding new "Extra Value Menu" from existing items.

4) Shop your closet -- rather than buying new items, repair, mend or alter existing items you have.

Second, internal consistency needs to be improved by either eliminating items that do not contribute to a subscale or by developing new items with better psychometric properties and/or modifying existing items.

Existing items from the literature were also included.

The potential new items were embedded among the existing items in the computerized administration.

New items were included and existing items were excluded from the original list.

Patient interviews were performed to elicit new items and evaluate existing items from the Reflux Disease Questionnaire.