Our study not only strengthens the importance of walking tests as a useful tool for evaluating the impact of a bronchodilator on some COPD patient-centred outcomes, but also indicates that 6-MWT seems to be a more appropriate instrument than 12-MWT for assessing the exercise response to a bronchodilator in COPD.
We suggest that a more appropriate instrument to measure HRQL in patients with IPF is needed and would be of great value.
FM patients also scored worse on the number of days felt good, suggesting that the FIQ may be a more appropriate instrument for evaluating FM patients than the HAQ or AIMS.
Further, additional study is required to properly assess the adequacy of current instruments for evaluating patients with IPF, and, if the instruments are found to be inadequate, to provide a basis for developing a more appropriate instrument to serve this purpose.
He experimented with a style of jhala (performance with rapid pulse) developed by Bundu Khan, but considered it more appropriate for plucked instruments and stopped performing it.
We used a self-report method, as it is considered more appropriate than objective instruments for a large epidemiological study, such as ours.
A mail questionnaire is thus more appropriate for this instrument.
A secondary finding was that the VAS health-rating instrument appears more appropriate as a disease-specific instrument, as in this study, patients did not necessarily assign the primary disease (arthritis in most cases) as being the most prominent in affecting their well-being.
Further, VAS health-rating instrument appears more appropriate as a disease-specific instrument, as being the most prominent in affecting patients' well-being, and also the five-point self-rated health scale showed that the health state of patients with co-morbidity was worse than the patients without co-morbidity.
"Changing to instruments more appropriate for children has been something the department has dragged their feet on for quite a long time".
