Sentence examples for of clinical instruments from inspiring English sources

This chapter addresses the role of microbicides (biocides) in the decontamination and disinfection of clinical instruments and clinical environments.

Taken together, despite its importance for the design of clinical instruments, the question whether frequency or intensity should be used as verbal anchors for self-report rating scales has only rarely been addressed so far.

Following validation in independent patient populations, these data may accelerate the development of simple clinical instruments, such as point-of-care lateral flow immunochromatographic rapid tests that could be widely implemented in resource-limited settings where dengue and leptospirosis co-circulate.

Brody concluded that the value of the results obtained from tests and scales, 'like that of all clinical instruments, depends to a great extent on the ability of the user' (1942: 326).

The aim of this study is to begin preliminary investigation on whether the performance of these clinical instruments may be improved if the displacement waveform of the scaler tip could be controlled.

A multitude of unidimensional clinical instruments are covered by three fundamental Rasch models.

To the best of our knowledge, no studies have compared the combined use of two structured clinical instruments with the use of only one clinical rating scale in assessing suicide risk.

We concur with Ertl et al. [ 26] and de Jong and van Ommeren [ 105] who caution against the application of ad hoc translated clinical instruments without validation and adjustment of cut-off scores across different populations.

It includes a review of several of the most commonly employed clinical instruments designed to assess delirium and two case studies, to assist with assessing and understanding this complex syndrome.

First, as previously mentioned, ordinal or binary data are the most common form of data collected using clinical instruments.

The Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) developed by John Morris was one of the first validated clinical instruments to identify individuals in a predementia state, and a CDR score of 0.5 became known to indicate the early stages of AD preceding dementia [ 33].