To become a member of DPBRN, practitioners must complete a 101-item enrollment questionnaire.
Corresponding values for the WURSS global-severity-today item at enrollment were 4.10, (1.26), [3,5] Summary scores for the WURSS-44 and WURSS-21 are simple sums of all responses except the introductory global-severity-today score and the concluding global-change-since-yesterday items.
To assess importance-to-patients, we attached the question "How important is this to you?" to each of the WURSS-44 items at enrollment.
Cardiovascular conditions and health behaviors were based on respondents' previous answers to items on the enrollment questionnaire.
All participating palliative care clinicians complete a 35-item questionnaire about themselves at the time of enrollment and a 3-item questionnaire after each consultation that is about the patient's prognosis, performance status and goals of medical treatments.
The FFQ contains questions on the usual frequency of consumption of 77 main food items during the year preceding enrollment.
Some of the items in the checklist include enrollment, intervention allocation, follow-up, and analysis.
Daily nutritional intake was obtained from a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) containing questions on the usual frequency of consumption of 79 main food items during the year preceding enrollment.
Daily nutritional intake was obtained from a self-administered food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) containing questions on the usual frequency of consumption of 79 main food items during the year preceding enrollment.
The first 8 survey items collected demographic information that included participants' current chiropractic institution in which they are enrolled, age, sex, current enrollment status, education and degrees achieved prior to enrollment, and student chiropractic organization affiliations.
At the enrollment visit, men completed an 88-item Computer-Assisted Self-Interview (CASI) that has been demonstrated to elicit reliable responses [ 23].
