We prefer the terms comprehensiveness and efficiency because they are intuitively easier to understand.
We start from the CAR terms: comprehensiveness, adequacy, and representativeness (Commonwealth of Australia, 1992; Sections III.2 4).
Specifically, this study aims at investigating the characteristics, standards of design and production models, the efficiency of medium and instructional materials of each company and institution in terms of comprehensiveness, dimensions, veracity, precision, and finally in terms of being user- friendly.
Subsequently, we planned to evaluate how the new combined search filter performs in terms of comprehensiveness, finding all relevant studies and efficiency, in terms of optimising the ratio of relevant to non-relevant studies in the yield.
In terms of comprehensiveness, microarray or DNA chip hybridization is extremely powerful.
The conclusion of a review of current forecasting methods was that they all show serious shortcomings in terms of comprehensiveness and accuracy of forecasts [ 8].
Our consultation was part of a scoping exercise with a limited timescale rather than an in-depth qualitative study or complete national survey and as such has inherent limitations in terms of comprehensiveness.
Although both were found to have advantages and limitations in terms of comprehensiveness, accessibility and ease of file management, we found acceptable discrepancies on aggregate numbers used for denominators that did not impact the computed participation rates.
Whether or not this is true, there remains an important debate to be had about the speed of HTA production, the potential trade-off in terms of comprehensiveness of the compiled evidence base, and whether policy recommendations are materially affected.
However, while the reporting of EU Member States to OECD-DAC has much improved in terms of comprehensiveness in the past decade, we also find there is still room for improvement (12).
