Rather, among those who agree to not be offended by reality, it serves to stimulate a discussion and increase its validity.
The focus of the study on clinician-scientists was chosen to increase its validity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, as well as to enable comparison with previous research.
We concluded that a higher degree of standardization of the assessment procedure should increase the reliability of the PIR-GAS, and a more thorough theoretical foundation of the manual should increase its validity.
We conclude that a higher degree of standardization of the assessment procedure should increase the reliability of the PIR-GAS, and that a more thorough theoretical foundation of the manual should increase its validity.
We believe that dissemination of the MS Excel CCI Macro will lead to increased use of the CCI for clinical research purposes as well as modification of the CCI to increase its validity and clinical utility.
Disease activity in RA is a good example of where manifestations of the underlying pathogenic process have been combined in a pooled measure to increase its validity and precision (Table 1) [ 5].
An audit of the questionnaire was conducted to increase its validity, with verification procedures that included self-checks by interviewers, audits by quality control staff, on-site inspections, and phone reviews.
The strength of the present study is that it is based on random population sample, which increases its overall validity.
And last, the PPH definitions used were recently validated in Spain, [ 24, 25] an aspect which increases its internal validity, however this same consideration limits the contrast of our results with studies that used other lists (including other lists in Spain).
