Sentence examples for instruments to ascertain from inspiring English sources

There is a need for brief instruments to ascertain the diagnosis of major depressive disorder.

We provide a relatively rigorous test of this hypothesis here, based on a cross-informant approach (parent-report for conduct problems and self-report for depression), and using two different instruments to ascertain depression at different developmental stages.

The study team developed a 36-question survey instrument to ascertain the functioning of Ethiopian hospital governing boards.

It will also test the PIPP instrument to ascertain if it is a useful tool for research in this field, which could guide policy not just in Lao PDR but also in other vulnerable regions.

Few instruments exist to ascertain the severity of a preschool-aged child's asthma exacerbations managed at home.

Without some minimal substantive assumptions about the quantity being measured, such as its amenability to manipulation and its relations to other quantities, it would be impossible to interpret the indications of measuring instruments and hence impossible to ascertain the evidential relevance of those indications.

We recommend further qualitative and empirical studies to assess the impact of infusion ICT and oral ICT in iron overload patients, using validated QoL instruments to better ascertain the direct impact.

The aims of the paper were to ascertain whether different instruments, based on different conceptualizations, differ in their ability to capture frail individuals; to analyze whether individuals categorized as frail by the two frailty measures show differences in terms of functional status; and to investigate how these measures are related to each other and to disability.

The median of the bMCU measure was used as a split variable to ascertain that the instrument does not function differently for students who have developed a relatively good understanding of the content compared to students with little or no such understanding.

Secondly, the instrument itself could be too narrow to ascertain and discriminate the range of all the possible reactions following a patient suicide.

In a further attempt to find a theoretical framework, we chose a different approach to lead us to relevant frameworks from outside the medical field: using a snowballing technique (Teunissen and Westerman 2011), we tried to ascertain which educational environment instruments were used to build the contents of the medical ones.