For the purposes of effectiveness evaluation, patients enrolled during the 3 months of the intervention were included in the postintervention analysis.
To construct and validate an instrument for the purpose of assessing effectiveness of curriculum development and educational interventions in sleep medicine.
In rheumatology, various observational cohorts and registries have been created to complement information obtained from RCTs, some with the primary purpose of monitoring effectiveness and safety of biologic agents.
The purpose of comparative effectiveness research is to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions that will improve health care at both the individual and population levels' [ 4].
9 10 Community involvement strategies vary with respect to target groups and intervention procedures 11 13 14 14 but are implemented at the level of geographical or administrative areas; for the purpose of an effectiveness evaluation they should be set up as cluster randomised controlled trials.
In the absence of a summary outcome measure, evaluating sampling uncertainty for the purpose of cost-effectiveness will not be possible.
The literature on evaluating costs for the purpose of cost-effectiveness analysis and that on health econometrics have developed largely independently.
This mixed model has advantages as it can stimulate fundamental self-reflection and aid continuous improvement by exploring the organisations purpose, its areas of effectiveness, and its weaknesses and future opportunities, followed by an open dialogue and helpful feedback [ 18].
Efforts to improve clergy health for the purposes of increased effectiveness and production cannot cure what ails both clergy and congregations.
Its key conclusions, centred around what it calls "five key tests of the quality of governance" - clarity of purpose, effectiveness, independence, transparency and accountability - are largely bureaucratic.
For purposes of cost-effectiveness analysis, treatment effects on the DSM are often "mapped" into treatment effects on a generic health-related quality-of-life (QOL) scale, such as EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire.
