Money, after all, is just an instrument for obtaining other things, including time – whereas time is all we've got.
Participating clinicians were instructed to use the instrument for obtaining a history from the patient.
Such economic assessments require detailed program cost data, but there is no standardized instrument for obtaining these data.
Compared with HTA, reference pricing is a relatively blunt instrument for obtaining value for money from pharmaceuticals.
Seeing therefore that the uneducated and poorly educated desire to be informed, the instrument for obtaining consent should be simplified to make for easier comprehension.
The instrument used for obtaining the individual results, including the assessment of mental disorders, was the WMH version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview 3.0 (WMH-CIDI 3.0) that generates psychiatric diagnoses according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria.
Knowing the capabilities and limitations of various instruments is necessary for obtaining insights into the flow behavior of polymer melts for problem solving purposes.
Survey protocols, instruments and processes for obtaining informed consent for this study were approved by institutional review committees of the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and the Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China.
Considering the differences between social, cultural and economic aspects, the availability of cross-culturally valid, multi-lingual versions of instruments is important for obtaining reliable, comparable data [ 26].
Therefore, the interRAI instruments are more useful for obtaining prevalence estimates across the continuum of care than acute hospital-based administrative records.
