Because of the financial implications, the validity and generalizability of the national DRG tariffs are often questioned, and continuous analyses of the appropriateness of the tariffs are warranted.
As our measure is not focused on interpretation, such as experiencing financial difficulty, its validity and reliability is likely to be better.
Such adaptation of the goals is of crucial importance to ensure their technical validity, logistical feasibility, financial affordability and to secure political commitment and broad public support for their achievement.
They distinguish between high-validity systems, where heuristics might develop, and zero-validity situations, such as financial markets and politics, where predictability is low and establishment of expertise constrained.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Scrushy had certified the validity of HealthSouth's financial results under the recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley law.
Fairness, voluntariness and full financial disclosure not only protect the validity of the agreement, but also enhance the couple's prospects for a happy marriage.
General criteria by which an application for financial support is judged is the validity of the central concept, soundness of experimental design, and the significance of the research.
Second, the fact that his relatively large and multinational study was conducted in a real-life setting without financial incentives adds to the external validity.
We have been unable to study convergent validity in cognitive problems, financial problems, family-related distress and benefits of cancer due to the lack of adequate dimensions or scales in our study.
The extent to which financial interests of the experts affected the validity of the study must be investigated.
