Sentence examples for unpublished scale from inspiring English sources
In 1981, Main, working together with Berkeley graduate student Donna Weston, first formulated an unpublished Scale for Disordered/Disoriented Infant Behavior.
The remainder used either modified versions of published scales (14%) or unnamed scales with no data on validity or reliability (59%), although unpublished scales were used significantly less frequently over the last 2 y compared to previously (21%vs 74%, p<0.01).
However, these figures were derived from small studies with low precision and using unpublished scales [ 7].
Satisfaction with the decision-making process was measured in 2 studies using unpublished scales.
33 Investigation of 149 of those 2000 trials showed that unpublished scales were a source of bias.
In non-pharmacological trials, a third of the claims of treatment superiority based on unpublished scales would not have been made if a published scale had been used.
For example Marshall et al.[ 13] found that clinical trials evaluating interventions for people with schizophrenia were almost 40% more likely to report that treatment was effective when they used unpublished scales as opposed to validated measures.
This includes 36 unpublished, full scale experimental results by the authors and 57 results from the literature.
279 Modified versions of validated measurement tools may no longer be considered validated, and use of unpublished measurement scales can introduce bias and inflate treatment effect sizes.
Analogously, performance of the neuromuscular control of the scapulothopracic muscles will be based on the quality of contraction, substitution, movement pattern, and ability to maintain contraction as scored on a clinical rating scale (unpublished results).
