The greater the level of agreement between items, the greater the potential level of overall interrater reliability and in turn increased likelihood of validity.
Increasing the range of observations will increase the validity of extrapolations of cost estimates for countries in which these data are not available.
The seven-category response function is a problem for the FIM™ instrument, and a reduction of responses might increase the validity of the instrument.
However, one should be aware that the study size was small and that a higher number of patients could increase the validity of this finding.
The prospect of increasing the validity of survey data is increasingly valuable in the context of decreasing survey response, as well as increasing fiscal austerity.
We excluded patients with fewer than four outpatient visits to increase the validity of our measurements of continuity.
The intracranial width perpendicular to the ICAs could serve to determine the positions of the ICAs and to increase the validity of the estimates.
Twelve studies used biochemical assessments of their smoking outcomes to increase the validity of findings.
We need to end prohibition around a lot of different substances so we can increase the validity of substances that are being widely used or are available..
Our non-biased sampling of exposures supplemented by detailed interviews will increase the validity of exposures.
