Tromp and Baltussen [ 17] recognize responsiveness to the population needs as one of the five categories that reflect the goals of a health system.
This paucity of evidence is somewhat disturbing considering that the World Health Organization recognizes responsiveness as an intrinsic objective of any health care system [ 19], one that needs to be maintained in the quest towards universal health coverage [ 20].
After all, if we think of appraisal as something like perception, a matter of responding to what is out there in the world, and of bestowal as something like action, a matter of doing something and creating something, we should recognize that the responsiveness central to appraisal may itself depend on our active, creative choices.
Excessive cytokine responsiveness is a well recognized pathogenic factor important for IBD.
However, it should be recognized that gender differences in GH responsiveness are largely eliminated nowadays when GH dose is titrated against serum IGF-I rather than being a fixed quantity based on body size.
The levels of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL -1β and IL -1βere quandified because of their recognized importance in lipopolysaccharide-induced airwereresponsiveness (Jagielo et al. 1996; Wang et al. 1998).
The WOMAC questionnaire is well recognized for its good validity, reliability, and responsiveness [4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12].
The WOMAC questionnaire is well recognized for its good validity, reliability and responsiveness.
It was recognized to have a good construct validity, responsiveness to change over time and test-retest reliability [ 3].
However, recognized clinical thresholds were considered to assess the responsiveness of the WPS-RA, in support of the discriminant validity.
