This makes answering this instrument time consuming and unsuitable for people having low educational attainments as well as for questionnaire surveys that seek to measure several variables at a time.
These methods require expensive instruments, time-consuming sample pre-treatment and skilled persons to operate them.
Most of existing objective instruments are time consuming, complicated, expensive and not applicable in daily practice [ 6, 7].
The experimental determination of these parameters requires the use of many instruments, which is time consuming.
Developing an instrument is a time consuming process, effort and costs can be spared if already existing questionnaires can be adapted for use in similar groups of patients, assuming they meet set criteria.
Developing new LC-MS methods and transferring existing methods between instruments and laboratories are time consuming and challenging, mostly because of the large number of LC and MS parameters that require optimization.
Medical oncologists continue to use performance status as a proxy for QOL measures, as completion of QOL instruments is perceived as time consuming, may measure aspects of QOL not affected by cancer therapy, and interpretation may be unclear [ 3].
Medical oncologists continue to use performance status as a proxy for quality of life (QOL) measures, as completion of QOL instruments is perceived as time consuming, may measure aspects of QOL not affected by cancer therapy, and interpretation may be unclear.
It is a valid, easy to administer, less time consuming instrument which is available in Urdu [ 25].
The Korean, as well as the English version of the PedsQL 3.0 End Stage Renal Disease Module, represents a comprehensive, brief and low time consuming instrument to assess the quality of care of pediatric ESRD patients.
They are safe and effective, although they require instruments to apply them, are time consuming and, above all, create an extra staff and cost burden for removal of sutures/staples.
