Our aim is to develop a quantitative instrument for primary education that determines the cultural texture within an individual institution, as well as among different kinds of schools.
3. Laaksonen C, Aromaa M, Heinonen OJ, Suominen S, Salantera S. Paediatric health-related quality of life instrument for primary school children: cross-cultural validation.
SCOFF was designed to be a simple, memorable screening instrument for primary care, intended to raise suspicion that an eating disorder might exist before rigorous clinical assessment [ 6].
To explore whether the FI is a valid and adequate screening instrument for primary care, we conducted a systematic review of its psychometric properties.
We created and validated the SHARE Frailty Instrument, a simple frailty screening instrument for primary care based on the first Wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.
8 A number of other definitions have also been described in the literature, including FRAIL (Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illnesses, Loss of weight) (International Academy of Nutrition and Aging), 9 Frailty Instrument for Primary Care of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-FI), 10 and the Groningen Frailty Indicator.
Evidence for internal consistency, reliability and criterion validity obtained was satisfactory, indicating that the HLPC can be considered a high-quality instrument for the primary care setting.
The first mentioned instrument was developed for primary care.
In this study, in which quantification of error is based on the variability between monitors, error due to spatial variation is much greater than error due to instrument imprecision, particularly for primary air pollutants [ 15].
Reductions in staff and possible loss of jobs are, in the Dutch context, not real issues limiting the willingness to use the instrument, because demand for primary care is generally increasing.
