Because professional administered standardised assessments are extremely resource intensive, parent-completed questionnaires are used increasingly, particularly in large studies of populations at low risk of impairment [ 1- 4].
We have built up a team of over 100 professionals and implemented standardised shared services (HR, RnD,…) in order to provide startups with much more than money".
Several of the health professionals suggest that standardised obesity questions (similar to the Whooley questions for mental health [ 39]) within the maternity booking history or notes would make weight easier to approach (e.g., providing suitable questions).
Current work towards standardising the professional remit of SBAs and foster more universal accountability mechanisms are being carried out by WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA.
Common interventions aimed at improving the quality of referral and response letters have focussed on templates, standardised letters and training of health professionals [ 50].
For parents with very young children, there's a new – UK standardised – crèche, fully equipped with qualified childcare professionals and a toy-box to rival Mary Poppins' handbag.
The ICF enables individuals' functioning and disability to be comprehensively described and categorised in a way that is systematic, standardised and readily understandable by all health professionals and social workers involved in the care and support of patients [ 2].
The United Kingdom's NHS introduced a competency-based framework, the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) which standardised competency levels across all non-medical professionals; however, the ability of this model to enhance workforce flexibility is limited by the overlaying of traditional professional boundaries and career hierarchies [ 91].
Further data collection included father's occupation which was used to derive social class based on the UK Registrar General's Standard Occupational Classification (categorised as professional, managerial, skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled), and birth weight (kg, standardised for gestational age and gender).
We need to standardise reporting of trials of interventions to improve professional performance.
