The PUQE, which consists of three quantification items with five answer categories, appears to be a reliable instrument to determine severity of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy [ 2].
For judgment-quantification the items were again presented to the same focus groups.
Three items (quantification of benefits, the availability of treatment or diagnostic options, and description of harms associated with the intervention) showed significant improvements over the duration of the study (p = 0.007, p = 0.019, p = 0.0005 respectively).
The three steps of the costing procedure in this study were: 1. Identification of relevant cost-items 2. Quantification of the use of the identified cost-items 3. Valuing the identified items With very few exceptions, all units in primary health care in Sweden are computerised, and several EPR systems are in use.
Henry Laycock and Michael Burke, at times, have tentatively favored the notion that there is a novel ontic category of plural entities which are not individual items of quantification.
This approach allows quantification of the number of items held in memory, K, from a set size of N items.
For the clinical evaluation of the hip we used the Harris hip score (HHS), focusing on items related to quantification of pain and functional deficit.
Quantification was performed using the software iTEM CE (Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions) and data were expressed as mean ± SD.
Modern measurement theory, Rasch Measurement Theory in particular, provides an evidence base for the extent to which a set of items form a real measure of a single construct (in this case, cognition), the relationship of individual items to each other and an estimate of the 'distance' between items, allow the mathematical quantification of the construct [ 18].
The final version of the NPSI includes 10 descriptors (plus two temporal items) that allow discrimination and quantification of five distinct clinically relevant dimensions of neuropathic pain syndromes and that are sensitive to treatment.
