"painstaking evaluation" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a careful, thorough analysis of something. For example, "We need to do a painstaking evaluation of all the data before making a decision about the project."
But each patient needs painstaking evaluation and appropriate care.
Jeremy says Sometimes sheer instinct can be a better guide to a career than the most painstaking evaluation of multiple pros and cons.
Mr. Brown said yesterday that a painstaking evaluation of Mr. Godineaux's mental capacity led him to the "inescapable conclusion" that Mr. Godineaux is retarded and therefore could not face capital punishment.
Both of those positions dodge the real work of addressing America's gun violence problem – the slow, painstaking evaluation needed to decide which policies might help a little more or a little less, and how much each of them burdens gun owners.
These observations, though limited to a single kindred, merit a painstaking evaluation of cancer of all anatomical sites in other kindreds showing the FAMMM syndrome.
Audiences have since struggled to understand scoring, and, worse for broadcasts, the painstaking evaluations can drag competitions out for more than three hours.
San Diego County went through a painstaking self-evaluation after the Cedar and Paradise fires destroyed 2,400 homes and killed 18 people in 2003.
For example, investigations into recurrences of melanoma in patients with negative sentinel lymph node biopsies revealed that the standard procedure at the time failed to detect 'occult' metastases that were found upon a painstaking re-evaluation by serial sectioning [ 11].
You learn in success, but failure demands answers that force a meticulous, repeated evaluation of every painstaking detail.
For all of its computer simulations and painstaking planning, the Department of Defense has never undertaken a systemic evaluation to determine whether its efforts to spare lives succeed or fail -- or what might be done to improve them.
Derek Wood QC wrote recently of the painstaking detail of the 161 Performance Indicators, in the Statement of Standards which form the basis of the judicial evaluation… his analysis cannot be faulted... it's a pity he didn't count the subdivisions.
