Sentence examples for productivity instrument from inspiring English sources

In addition, this study used a generic HRQOL instrument and a modified version of a productivity instrument to determine asthma-specific impact of disease control on children and caregivers.

The most common reasons for exclusion were: (i) the main aim of the study was not about assessing the psychometric properties of a health-related productivity instrument; (ii) the focus of productivity changes was related to specific health impairment; (iii) the instrument did not measure health-related productivity changes; (iv) health-related productivity was not self-reported.

A systematic review was conducted of studies evaluating the measurement properties of generic, self-reported health-related productivity instruments.

Given the large number of available productivity instruments the development of new instruments is not recommended, but rather improvement of the existing instruments.

OMERACT has re-enforced the importance of work productivity as an outcome measure in rheumatology through the Worker Productivity Special Interest Group, which has reviewed specific productivity instruments and continues to evaluate concepts and methodological and interpretation issues surrounding work productivity [ 44].

OMERACT has reinforced the importance of work productivity as an outcome measure in rheumatology through the Worker Productivity Special Interest Group, which has reviewed specific productivity instruments and continues to evaluate concepts and methodological and interpretation issues in work productivity [ 37].

In order to improve the reliability of results, worker productivity instruments should be applied to assess presenteeism [ 32] and easy-to-use questionnaires should be developed to determine how employee presenteeism affects profit.

Sixth, although it is difficult to determine the criterion validity without a real gold standard for health-related productivity change instruments, most studies considered the extent to which scores on the instrument of interest could be adequately reflected to a predetermined comparator.

For example, a problem encountered during the rating of 'criterion validity' was the absence of a gold standard in health-related productivity change instruments.

Health-related quality of life, utility and productivity outcome instruments have an important role to play in the assessment of the general well-being of subjects with COPD.

High-quality studies that evaluate and provide strong evidence for the unknown measurement properties, especially cross-cultural validity, are recommended to improve the generalizability and applicability of generic self-reported health-related productivity change instruments.