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The nickel-titanium endodontic instruments reported by Walia et al. were intended for hand usage, and the rotary instruments employed with slow-speed dental handpieces followed in the 1990s.
The literature search identified six papers 11, 22– 26 which reported on one or more of the functional decline screening instruments reported by Sutton et al 1 (HARP was reported in two of the six papers, 22, 25 ISAR in all six, 11, 22– 26 SHERPA in one, 25 and TRST in two 11, 26).
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A recent drift tube IM-MS instrument reported by Smith and co-workers incorporates several innovative technologies in its design, including electrodynamic ion funnels, printed circuit board ion optics, and temporal multiplexing.
The Global Activity Limitation Indicator GALIis is a single-item survey instrument reported by the individual him or herself to assess health-related activity limitations: "For at least the past six months, to what extent have you been limited because of a health problem in activities people usually do?".
According to our experience, it seemed to be unusually high when compared with related prevalence in nonprofessional players of classical instruments as reported by Fry [ 4].
Psychometric analysis of the survey instrument is reported by the authors elsewhere [ 25].
This will ensure that performance of the instrument as reported by the manufacturer fits the workload and sample types that the facility normally handles.
Preliminary experience with this instrument has been reported by different authors [12, 13, 14].
This finding of subjective complaints of memory and concentration difficulty unrelated to the appearance of POCD detected by specific instruments has also been reported by other authors [ 11, 29- 31]; in the study of Dijkistra et al. [ 31] the subjective impressions were still present at six-month follow-up in 17% of the patients.
Feedback from the participant who preferred the comparator assessment instrument reported liking the numerical score that was generated by using the comparator instrument as an indication of quality.
To enable a comparison of the three groups, the results are reported by instrument.
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