Most authors have accepted that a combination of objective and subjective measures is desirable for conducting a complete assessment.
The future use of these measures is desirable, as the DHP-18 has been tested as part of the UK Department of Health's Long Term Conditions PROMs pilot, and there is interest in using PROMs in long term conditions to track patient change (both clinically and for the individual), and assess service performance.
The one is that independently of the merits of any particular plan or measure, it is desirable on many and various accounts, that it should appear to other nations as the offspring of a wise and honorable policy.
As Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, put it last week: "This is the paradox of policy at present - almost any policy measure that is desirable now appears diametrically opposite to the direction in which we need to go in the long term".
Furthermore, an automatic measuring procedure is desirable for long-term investigations.
In quantifying the benefits of air pollution reduction measures, it is desirable to compare the size of the benefits with the effects of other individual confounding factors such as smoking or passive smoking.
A measuring instrument is desirable for further research.
A simple, portable, inexpensive and reliable method for measuring RT is desirable for clinical settings.
Short-term survival may need to be viewed as a surrogate measure, because it is desirable only when followed by long-term survival with an acceptable quality of life.
Until the parameters are measured experimentally, it is desirable to determine the sensitivity/robustness of a model circuit independent of the chosen parameter set and here we propose a strategy that determines this intrinsic robustness of a model.
