Sentence examples for use a standardised tool from inspiring English sources

This paper provides the first published data regarding the nature of the palliative care inpatient population within New Zealand and the care they receive, and to the best of our knowledge, is the only study conducted to date internationally to use a standardised tool to identify patients likely to be in the last year of life within a total hospital inpatient population.

The quality of studies was assessed using a standardised tool and rated as strong, moderate or weak.

Functional assessment was subjective rather than using a standardised tool.

Secondly, the study used a standardised tool (MOS-HIV) that has been culturally adapted.

Assessment of asthma control using a standardised tool is now considered good clinical practice [ 1, 2].

Studies that met the inclusion criteria were assessed for quality using a standardised tool, the Effective Public Health Practice Project tool.

Monitoring these changes in cause-specific mortality at the community level, using a standardised tool such as InterVA-4, will be an important strategy for understanding the future trajectory of the HIV pandemic.

We used a standardised tool to extract from "sound" controlled trials information on the development and content of the intervention evaluated, the population involved, and the trial design and methods.

Using a standardised tool developed specifically to assess financial and human costs of newborn care services, time spent by the CHW on home visits, activities related to the programme, and other health-promotion activities was assessed through a self-reported survey of 18 randomly selected CHWs (29% of total CHWs in the intervention villages).

The haematoxylin and eosin-stained breast tumour tissue was reviewed and scored for morphology features by one or more trained pathologists using a standardised tool as previously applied (Armes et al, 1998; Southey et al, 2011; Dite et al, 2012) and validated (Longacre et al, 2006).

To the best of our knowledge our study is the only conducted to date using a standardised tool with a total hospital inpatient population to identify patients likely to be in the last year of life on the basis of predetermined diagnostic and prognostic criteria.