In addition, our findings point to some promising candidates toward improving inter-rater reliability, such as a better referral quality, the operationalization of criteria, and an improved awareness of the prioritization process.
In this analysis, the maternal age at the point of birth as well as quantity and quality of prior pregnancies were used in the operationalization of "fertility".
Our collaborative work in supporting and evaluating PAR at multiple school sites has necessitated assessment of processes that reflect a high-quality operationalization of PAR with students in classroom and school settings.
Whereas studies were of high quality regarding outcome operationalization and statistical analyses, overall quality was moderate to low due to poor intervention description, population characterization and potential biases.
An operational is a result of the process of operationalization and is used to define something in terms of a process needed to determine its existence, duration, and quality as stated by Grünberg Thomas (2007).
The concept of operationalization was popularized by the physicist P.W. Bridgman in (Bridgman 1927).
In terms of operationalization, the existence of premarital birth is a dichotomous variable.
The quality model may be used for further development of elements, weights and operationalizations related to the quality of research practice in different academic fields.
The criteria list and the operationalization guide (Appendix 2) were used to assess the quality of each study.
The operationalization of our research design in three components – a quantitative quality of care, a quantitative service utilization, and a qualitative cross-cutting study component – follows the thematic, but also the conceptual structure of the study.
