Sentence examples for instruments functional from inspiring English sources

With the development of surgical techniques and instruments, functional and aesthetic rehabilitation of mandibular defects have become a basic goal for surgeons [3 5].

Main Outcome Measures: Functional capacity assessed by the RAND-36 instrument; functional health status assessed by the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire; and static and dynamic lifting capacity, endurance, and range of motion assessed by objective measures.

A similar testing strategy has been employed for other functional components; moreover, all of the operations of the CCA Tool are executable components of a workflow automation system that provides another vehicle for instrumenting functional testing.

Both ADL (51.4%) and IADL (57.4%) instruments found functional dependence for half of the included patients.

Conversely, the PRO instruments with functional rating scales were likely to have very few misfitting items (Tables 3 and 4).

Other screening instruments for functional decline were considered less appropriate because they are not validated for the Dutch population and are insufficiently adapted for prediction over time[ 52- 54].

Future clinical and epidemiologic studies on FTLD should include instruments assessing functional performance in order to better characterize the patient profile.

The objective of this study is to examine the correlation of these instruments to functional ability and quality-of-life questionnaires at hospital discharge.

Information on activity limitations was based on merely two survey items; detailed instruments measuring functional status and limitations exist and should be considered in future surveys [ 47- 50].

For example, one of the most widely used QOL instruments, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy General Scale (FACT-G), has been recently validated in elderly cancer patients [ 20].

Given the 6 "Genome Zephyr" imaging instruments, now functional in our laboratory, this sample load translates in to ~4 days of image acquisition, or ~25 days on a single imaging station.