The standard argument made by Wall Street and many of my academic colleagues is that these instruments are useful for risk management and hedging.
The specific materials and shapes of these instruments are useful for identifying the types and species of shamanism and following their development.
However there is no agreement on which quality of life (QoL) instruments are useful for monitoring outcome of psychological treatment.
Results from the three experiments show that the instruments are useful tools to study drifting snow in remote areas.
Patient self-assessment instruments are useful in screening, tracking, and documenting the course of depressive symptoms with minimal clinician time.
The purpose of this study was to describe to what extent existing instruments are useful in assessing the methodologic quality of HTA of disease management.
Beyond supporting the validity of the SCS, present findings have clinical implications, as they reveal that self-report instruments are useful and informative resources for assessing antisocial behaviors and rebellious attitudes in youth.
Other instruments are useful for measuring stress-related variables (e.g. SRRS, PSS, SCS, MHLCS, DSR-15, ERP-R, QOLIE-31) in order to help characterize the individual "stress profile" and thus orientate patients towards the most appropriate treatment.
However, just how sensitive these QOL instruments are at detecting clinically significant changes over time is not entirely clear and, although these instruments are useful endpoints for migraine clinical trials, their role in clinical practice is yet to be established [12].
