The Delphi method often presents a challenge to carry out in practice, not least due to the lack of evidence in the literature as to optimal standard operation procedures and forms of interpretation.
Thus validation "is an argumentative discipline more comparable to the judicial procedures of legal interpretation.
The training session reviewed the function, procedure, and interpretation of the Determine™ TB LAM test (Alere Inc., Waltham, USA).
The motivation for our study was driven by research participants asking investigators to explain the clinical relevance behind the clamp procedure and interpretation of the results.
Afterwards, examiner A and B (final year bachelor PT students), and examiner C tested 10 subjects with and without neck pain in an open study, to become familiar with and to standardise and equalise the test procedure and interpretation of results.
Owing to the known challenges of using survey weights in regression models, 27 including difficulties in obtaining correct estimates for SE, and complexity of modelling procedures and interpretation of results, no survey weights will be incorporated in the development of CVDPoRT.
This procedure was chosen for ease of interpretation, as using an even number of months would induce a shift of the resulting average by half a month.
A statistical interpretation procedure of numerous operative data from TBMs used for the excavation of tunnels in rock, and of the characterization of intact rock and of the rock mass, has been developed to determine the proposed formulation.
