The aim of the present study was to determine the reliability, validity and practicality of 3 measures of acute pain in infants; the Modified Behavioural Pain Scale (MBPS), Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS), and Face Legs Activity Cry Consolability Scale (FLACC).
Although questionnaire-based self-reports of outcomes might be considered to be as informative as physician-based measures [ 11], the practicalities of measurement, analysis, and interpretation raise several issues.
Parameters measured within the feasibility trial will include recruitment and retention, practicality of collecting outcome measures, completeness of data collection, and data required for the assessment of cost-effectiveness.
To further improve the practicality of this brief measure, its ability to identify those patients in the bottom decile of overall satisfaction scores was explored in a dichotomous cutoff set, which maximised the sensitivity and specificity.
In addition, questions remain about the practicality of dismantling older security measures, such as those hard-to-maintain blue light call boxes that are located on many campuses.
The objectives of this pilot study were, not only to determine the practicality of collecting five QOL measures in terms of administration and respondent burden, but also to estimate the median, mean and standard deviation (SD) of the different QOL measures; the latter provided the estimates to calculate a sample size for the main study.
In order to guarantee the practicality of applications, how to measure the reliability of the wireless sensor network is an important issue which motivates us to investigate the reliability analysis for such networks.
The video-based evidence indicated that the students were able to understand the practicality of the task, choose the appropriate measuring instrument, and apply a technique for measuring, measure the length of the rooms and record measurements.
Thus, we have demonstrated the practicality of applying COIN nanoparticles for measuring intracellular phosphorylation, offering new possibilities to expand on the current fluorescent technology used for immunoassays in single cells.
The practicalities of developing appropriate measures need debate.
