Thus, harmonizing assessment and reporting is essential to make NFI results comparable (Tomppo et al. 2010).
Most of these definitions cannot be harmonized across assessments, because they are dependent upon the purpose of a specific assessment [ 36].
The Environmental Burden of Disease in European countries (EBoDE) project aimed to provide harmonized EBD assessments for the countries participating.
Authors should describe any efforts made to harmonize the assessment methods, if these were different.
We offer our congratulations to the Science & Decisions NRCC 2008) committee on their very insightful report, which we believe contains many useful recommendations, particularly the recommendation to harmonize risk assessment for cancer and noncancer effects.
Although there have been some promising results in the field of diabetes and epigenetics, challenges related to study design, harmonized methodology of assessment, tissue heterogeneity, and others remain.
Perhaps not surprisingly, these recommendations of NRC (2009) also run counter to other recommendations to establish harmonized default risk assessment paradigms (Crump et al., 1997, 1998; IPCS, 2006; Meek, 2008; NRC, 2007a; US EPA, 2005).
The reduction of assessment burden achieved by harmonizing the risk assessment with the MDS and the ability to derive this scale in multiple service settings make interRAI PURS an attractive scale for system-wide approaches to pressure ulcer reduction strategies.
Neuropathological assessment using molecular biology and immunohistochemistry, homogeneous definitions, harmonized interlaboratory methods, and assessment standards can identify 54 to 97% of AD cases and can eliminate 62 to 100% of nondemented subjects, but only between 8 and 42% of non-AD dementias, without, however, being able to clarify the etiology of most of these disorders.
