As such, these computer-based estimates of ARDS could serve for assessment of incidence, financial planning and impact studies.
Primarily, however, they serve as assessment tools that enable facilities to measure compliance with accepted standards of care.
While exams often serve as assessment tools, their ability to serve as a learning tool may be underappreciated by instructors and students alike (Harper et al., 2004; Yerushalmi et al., 2007; Roediger and Karpicke, 2006; Roediger and Butler, 2011).
The proposal focuses on three stages: "preliminary framing", "concern assessment" (serving as a scoping mechanism), and potentially a comprehensive "social impact assessment".
I did not see any simple paths to victory while serving on the assessment group that advised the new US commander, General Stanley McChrystal, on strategy, but I did see all too clearly why the war is being lost.
While serving on the assessment team, Kilcullen drew up a list of core American interests in Iraq, which he later gave to senior officials at the White House and the State Department.
Follow-up in clinical management may be better served by assessments over 30 rather than 90 days.
Behind each of the surviving teams is a story of shrewd management that flies directly in the face of Beane's self-serving assessment of the state of the game, starting with the Cardinals, who have essentially turned into the perennial contender that Beane's A's were supposed to be.
This informal assessment served to corroborate students' self-assessment or to ask them to revise their responses until they matched the instructor's assessment of their mastery.
In the process of health technology assessment, decision-analytic modelling serves as an assessment approach for economic evaluation.
There are technical difficulties in performing systematic and generalised, time-consuming analyses for sperm quality [ 6] and libido assessment using serving capacity tests (SCT) in commercial flocks [ 7].
