The questionnaire was developed by researchers and validated by specialists in the field of CCA and a pilot-test conducted on 10 cases and controls.
The methodology is based on a literature review, followed by critical appraisal by a multidisciplinary group of experts to produce draft guidelines which are then validated by specialists in cancer-care delivery.
The questionnaire was validated by three specialist pharmacists, who are experts in this field, and then the questionnaire was piloted among 88 Malaysian parents.
The report must be electronically or manually signed by the authorised laboratory specialist who validated the analysis and interpreted the result; co-validation and co-signature by a second competent person is recommended (and mandatory in some countries).
Similarly, if your local district general hospital now has some of its specialist services validated by a centre of excellence there needs to be a clear, simple way of explaining to patients what that means.
Although diagnoses are not validated by a medical specialist, the used GP diagnoses are based on the guidelines of the Dutch College of General Practitioners NHGG).
The strength of the ACT score is that it has been validated against the asthma specialist's rating of symptom control, quality of life and spirometric lung function.
Postgraduate assessment validates doctors for specialist practice initially by allowing them to be entered onto the specialist register, whilst revalidation is the affirmation of continuing fitness to practise and therefore must relate to compliance with defined competencies.
On the strong side, headache specialists had validated the CH diagnosis of all the participants prior to inclusion in the headache biobank.
The survey was developed at the Center for Research and Education in Emergency Care (CREEC) at the University of Leuven based upon literature data and validated by several disaster specialists from the network of the CREEC and the Leuven University Disaster Management Course (joint venture with the Belgian Military and the Flemish Society of Emergency Nurses).
All patients included in the biobank are consulted by a headache specialist, validating the headache diagnosis according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD, version 2 and 3-beta) [14].
