Respondents' anxiety level was assessed with a previously validated state-anxiety scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) wherein respondents' rate their feelings in response to ten general statements [ 6, 20].
We adapted a previously published and validated state-transition Markov model of HPV infection and cervical cancer [ 12, 13] to estimate total lifetime costs, life expectancy and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) associated with different screening strategies either alone or in combination with vaccination to prevent HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18 in the UK.
Human development index (HDI) was created by United Nations, combines indicators of life expectancy, education and income to validate the state of a nation's development.
The first online questionnaire aimed to validate the state of scientific knowledge, the rated evidence for each neonatal risk factor, and the proposed graded recommendations.
The purpose of this study was to define and validate health states experienced by adults with relapsed/refractory B-precursor ALL, and to assign utility values to these health states using time-trade off methodology.
Again, reflecting a core theme of Austrian economics, market forces are overturning or refusing to validate the state-preferred pattern of investments.
To solve this, a new criterion to validate functional states after recognition (LAMDA-FAR), based on the minimum and maximum distances among MDV was developed.
In this paper, we introduce a hypothetical framework developed to address our research questions, the hypotheses we have conjectured, the research methodology we have used, and the data analysis methods used to validate the stated hypotheses.
Who cares if there is sizeable and growing body of rigorous empirical literature validating that state school finance reforms can have substantive, positive effects on student outcomes, including reductions in outcome disparities or increases in overall outcome levels?
These data validate our stated hypothesis that systemic inflammation and glycemia influence circadian blood pressure variability.
