These estimates should be more useful for monitoring because they are not conditioned on presence or availability as are most single-visit approaches.
Empirical testing of this kind will slowly help create a base of experience and evidence to inform ever more useful performance monitoring approaches.
Estimates of HIV incidence, the number of new infections that occur during a specified time interval, are generally more useful in monitoring epidemic trends than prevalence, though prevalence estimates are more readily available and thus commonly used.
These data suggest that having accurate measurements of blood pressure at intervals longer than every six months is probably more useful for monitoring patients receiving antihypertensive drugs than the current practice of a clinic measurement every six months.
Therefore, detailed assessment about specific aspects of patients' experiences are likely to be more useful for monitoring the performance of various hospital departments and wards and could point to ways in which delivery of health care could be improved [ 33].
As has been documented for canine sepsis [ 46], meningitis [ 47] and polyarthritis [ 48], changes in CRP concentration over time may be more useful for monitoring of, and prognostic prediction in, surgical patients [ 23, 38].
Together, these results appear to suggest that the volume of abnormal vasculature, as opposed to traditional perfusion MRI measures of CBV or CBF, many be more useful for monitoring the response to anti-angiogenic therapies.
While several small epidemiological studies have focused on determining the prevalence and causes of anaemia among specific subpopulations of Indian women, 9 14 population-based surveys such as the National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and District Level Household and Facility Surveys (DLHS) have been more useful in monitoring the national burden of anaemia.
If I was just out of hospital and I was still having symptoms, a large part of the day, then I mean, it would be more useful to monitor my reactions and how my mood has been because I used to fluctuate a lot more than I do now.
This study suggests that it is more useful to monitor WHtR than BMI and WC as a surrogate for ALT levels among population-based elementary schoolchildren.
