This means the judges in Study 1 did not agree regarding the quality of adaptation of these two items.
These two items assess patients' experiences regarding cleanliness of hospital environment and quietness of hospital environment.
However, these two items differed with regard to importance, which was rated quite high for item 5 but low for item 18 (Table 1).
(xi) Patient preferences regarding TFGT: Two items have been adapted from a previous study conducted by our team exploring patient preferences and perceived survival benefits among younger women with early breast cancer considering endocrine therapy [ 40].
Note that we included in the questionnaire only these six items regarding availability and access, because we were interested in assessing organizational aspects of health care provided by the PCPs.
Although in the preliminary criteria four of the six items are required to classify SS, there was no limitation regarding which four items.
Details of the questions regarding knowledge (five items) and beliefs (four items) applied in this study are provided in Table 1.
In addition to demographic information, the questionnaire consisted of four other sections: knowledge of HIV/AIDS (fifteen items) [ 13, 14], public attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS (three items) [ 14], willingness to participate in a free HIV test (one item), and reasons for not being willing to take a free HIV test (one item).
Regarding the other two item types (i.e., Dis and Non), because the data did not meet the normality assumption, Kruskal Wallis tests were performed, with Mann–Whitney U tests as follow-up procedures whenever applicable (the alpha level was adjusted to.017 with Bonferroni corrections).
The parallelisation strategy is designed regarding three items: the numerical stability of the nonlinear procedure, the parallel sparse equation solver and the application on heterogeneous hardware: dedicated shared memory machines or clusters of networked personal computers.
On 5 August, when the German delegates sent a letter to the king regarding three items that particularly worried them (compulsory clerical celibacy, the withholding of the chalice from the laity, and the maintenance of private masses for the dead), Tunstall was able to intervene for the king and to influence the decision.
