This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Purpose To examine the construct validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) by exploring relationships among several well-recognized ...

Background: Disease-specific Quality Of Life (QOL) measures are devised to assess the impact of a specific disease across a spectrum of important domains of life. The purpose of this study was to ...

All health care practitioners should be facile in the digital rectal exam (DRE) as it provides prostate, rectal and neurological information. The purpose of this study was first to justify our ...

1. What is the difference between the reliability and validity of a measurement? The validity of a measure is the extent to which differences in scores on the instrument reflect true differences among ...

Nutrient profiling classifies individual food products according to their nutrient content. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), validation is a key step in the development of a nutrient ...

In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...

The current theory about validity reflected in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA et al. in Standards for educational and psychological testing, American Psychological ...

The exponential growth of quality of life studies over the last three decades appears to be the cause of increased interest in rigorous evaluation of therapeutic interventions. General-health ...