With increasing numbers of outcomes and health services research studies based exclusively or primarily on administrative data, knowledge of the accuracy of various potential research variables typically obtained from administrative data is highly desirable, as the validity of any conclusions will depend largely on the validity of such data.
As the model is estimated using Bayesian methods, it can incorporate prior knowledge on the diagnostic accuracy of the reference tests used.
To our knowledge, no study on the accuracy of self-reported data on history of shift work has been conducted.
Other ad hoc knowledge measures have focused on the accuracy of patients' estimates of their personal risk of breast cancer recurrence or their estimate of the survival benefit of chemotherapy [ 17- 19, 34].
We used the following instruments to assess the influence of ready knowledge, disposition, and reasoning skills on the accuracy of diagnoses: (1) a knowledge inventory, (2) the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, and (3) the Health Science Reasoning Test.
The main and interaction effects of knowledge sources and PES-format on the accuracy of nursing diagnoses were estimated by two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The literature focused on social support systems may thus enhance the accuracy of knowledge on the complex nature of the disease by underlining its social dimension, as well as evaluating the anticipated quality, security and efficiency outcomes.
In the regular modelling case, this knowledge is not available and one has to rely on the accuracy of homology detection methods.
To our knowledge, this is the first report on the accuracy of prostate cancer segmentations from mpMRI and 18F-choline PET using registered whole-mount histology as the reference standard.
To the best of our knowledge, no specific data are available on the accuracy of MRM to differentiate recurrent lesions from normal changes of the surgical scar at the site of prior lumpectomy when a multifactorial MRM evaluation protocol is used to classify enhancing lesions.
