The aim of this study was to assess the validity of diagnostic procedures and possibility of its simplification.
Moreover, with studies pointing to problems in physician-certified causes, (137, 138) such causes should not be taken as automatically having content validity, and the possibility of routinely comparing a sample of death certificates with hospital records/doctors' notes/clinic or day hospital cards, should be pursued.
The study is an effectiveness study of an intervention in a real life setting and this adds to the external validity and the possibility of generalising the result to other regions in Denmark.
Using pioneering work on breast cancer as an example, we shall review some of the problems in interpreting the results of these three types of study and discuss the validity, the possibility of overinterpretation, and the clinical usefulness of the findings.
Original articles and review papers which presented the clinical relevance and practical validity regarding the possibility of application in TMD management have been included.
Ferguson's politics don't appear to rest on semantic definitions of rightwing, so much as a refusal to recognise the validity – or even possibility – of any alternative way of looking at the world.
This boundary was selected because the authors felt that if the uncertainty around the estimate of validity included the possibility of a sensitivity or specificity of less than 0.75 that the conclusions about the usefulness of the test change.
There Lewis introduces a first system meant to capture the ordinary, strict sense of implication, guided by the idea that: "Unless 'implies' has some 'proper' meaning, there is no criterion of validity, no possibility even of arguing the question whether there is one or not.
It improves record keeping, integrity and validity of data through better supervision and a possibility of a random check.
To establish the validity of using this technology and the possibility of a data driven diagnostic assay for the detection of TSE disease, we decided to base this study on CNS tissue with a view to extending to blood in the longer term.
