It's not unusual for a musician to become controversial, but it is rare for a musical instrument to be debated.
Until such a measure is available, the psychometric validity of the existing PROMS instruments will continue to be debated within the context of their relevance to each patient's individual definition of a successful outcome after TKA.
The relative merits of period instruments and their modern counterparts are debated in Upper West Side restaurants.
It has been debated whether or not instruments designed in one system are applicable to other cultures.
The ability of this type of instrument to reflect relevant changes in chronic disabilities has been debated [ 50], and it has also been debated whether quality of life is a good term regarding the content of these measurements [ 51].
Statutory instruments – ministerial diktats by any other name – are a way of making sure that little is debated or scrutinised by MPs.
Items that did not reach the majority's approval were debated by the authors, that decided which items should remain in the instrument, following the same evaluation criteria.
This assumption has been debated, and to determine whether it is true, the reliability and validity of the evaluation instrument must be high.
However, it has been debated that test-retest reliability may be less useful than internal consistency reliability in HRQL instrument development [ 42].
