Sentence examples for more generic measures from inspiring English sources

However, the extent to which these single activity items influence the more generic measures may not be quite so simple.

Leaving aside the question of whether disease-specific outcome measures really are more sensitive than more generic measures, a number of difficulties arise in selecting a comparable outcome measure for use in economic evaluation.

Whereas the Conners' scale (a standard ADHD assessment scale) [ 21] was the most frequently used condition-specific measure in the original audit, use of these scales has significantly decreased in favour of more generic measures.

There are obvious tradeoffs between domain-specific measures, such as the Labour Agentry Scale, and more generic measures, such as ours, that aim to comprehensively assess the childbirth experience.

In that case, P4P programs will have to resort to structural and process measures, as well as to more generic measures like patient experience, which can be measured on a more regular basis.

We build upon the first of these papers [ 38] by making incremental cost per QALY comparisons using mapping models that are based on a condition-specific measure, rather than the more generic measures of the SF-12 [ 40] and SF-36 [ 41], by using actual cost estimates for actual interventions, and by making comparisons with a different measure of utility (the EQ-5D).

A more generic measure, for example the quality-adjusted life-years, would be desirable.

Overall sitting time as a more generic measure of sedentary behaviour was less consistently associated with an index of the environmental attributes land use mix-diversity, proximity of destinations and aesthetics [ 27].

Furthermore, talking about alcohol in relation to the idea of a standard drink, and a kind of alcoholic beverage, indicates that women are not thinking about the ethanol content they consumed but rather in terms of a more generic measure of volume.

The OHS was designed as a site-specific outcome measure for orthopaedic evaluation, and as such, has been favoured over more generic outcome measures [ 16, 21].

On the other hand, if telemedicine is provided in addition to existing traditional services for example in home care, other more generic health measures are more appropriate.