12 in Annex S1] The application of this item was made more complicated by the absence of an independent reference test in many of the studies.
In a further study, to take the correlations into account, the application of multidimensional item response models is needed.
Decision-making agencies have been well positioned for leverage on the rapid advancement of different PRO models, the application of the item response theory and computer adapted test in developing PROs, and on the acceptance of such technology by patients and health professionals over the last decade.
Moreover, though the COSMIN checklist is increasingly used to appraise the methodological quality of reliability studies, the application of some items for the purpose of this review is debatable.
Future research investigating the potential for time-varying, and even change in, SRH measures to predict other major health outcomes, such as functional disability and health care utilisation, may extend the application of SRH items for indicators of population health.
The application of food items to a burn can cause an infection to occur.
The application of these Intervention Item Selection Rules (IISRs) is illustrated during the initial development of an outcome measure, completed by teachers, for elementary age children receiving psychosocial services from community mental health agencies.
Results of the application of the RTI item bank cannot be summarized as easily as results from the NOS because there is no recommendation to aggregate RTI item bank results into a summary score.
