These are legal instruments that function like domestic-violence protection orders, allowing family members or legal authorities to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone from possessing a firearm.
Clinical Relevance: This information should help surgeons in their selection of currently available surgical instruments and should aid engineers in the design of future instruments that function to modify articular cartilage.
It is a versatile instrument that can function like a pipe organ, can be played through a guitar amplifier for a distorted tone, is capable of sustained notes and rapid melodic runs, and can make percussive sounds.
XPS instruments function in a manner analogous to SEM/EDS instruments that use a focused electron beam for compositional analysis.
SF-36v2 is a generic quality-of-life instrument that assesses physical functioning, bodily functioning and role limitations due to health problems, role limitations due to personal or emotional problems, emotional well-being, social functioning, energy/fatigue, general health problems and perceived change in health.
Therefore, a single instrument that has multiple functions can reduce the amount of instrument exchange required and thereby reduce the total procedure time [7].
4. Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ-Spanish version) [ 23]: Instrument that measures physical function, work, and well-being, and contains visual analogue scales (VAS) for pain, sleep, fatigue, stiffness, anxiety and depression.
When estimating the need for different health services the most common approach is to use instruments that measure function or ability that can explain that the direct costs are related to these aspects.
Develop an instrument that evaluates feminine sexual function and correlates it with their life cycle, social familiar situation, and health status.
Despite the similarity of many of the items making up the four most popular PROMS, it is clear that three (OKS, WOMAC, KOOS) were designed solely for patients, whereas the KSS has an 'objective' section primarily designed for completion by surgeons which is reported separately from the PROMS instruments that measure function, satisfaction and fulfilment of expectations.
