BACKGROUND Appropriate patient information materials may support the consumer's decision to attend or not to attend colorectal cancer (CRC) screening tests (fecal occult blood test and screening colonoscopy). The aim of this study was to develop a list of criteria to assess whether written health information materials on CRC screening provide balanced, unbiased, quantified, understandable, and ...

Lack of information prior to medical tourism visits is a significant issue in meeting the expectations of patients. A global portal with doctor rating systems plausibly can bridge this gap. Doctor rating comparisons can help to reduce the information asymmetry in medical tourism. This study proposes a set of standards for doctor rating criteria for a medical tourism portal. A model has been dev...

This paper presents the results and conclusions of the C-rating project. The purpose of this project has been to define standard methods and criteria for testing, rating and specifying PV concentrator components and systems (C-systems). The general agreement on the capability of PV concentrator systems to reach cost competitive levels for PV energy in the mid-term suggested the requirement for ...

BACKGROUND The use of mobile apps for health and well being promotion has grown exponentially in recent years. Yet, there is currently no app-quality assessment tool beyond "star"-ratings. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop a reliable, multidimensional measure for trialling, classifying, and rating the quality of mobile health apps. METHODS A literature search was conducte...

Online rating system is a popular feature of Web 2.0 applications. It typically involves a set of reviewers assigning rating scores (based on various evaluation criteria) to a set of objects. We identify two objectives for research on online rating data, namely achieving effective evaluation of objects and learning behaviors of reviewers/objects. These two objectives have conventionally been pu...

The reliability and validity of a Portuguese version of the Young Mania Rating Scale were evaluated. The original scale was translated into and adapted to Portuguese by the authors. Definitions of clinical manifestations, a semi-structured anchored interview and more explicit rating criteria were added to the scale. Fifty-five adult subjects, aged 18 to 60 years, with a diagnosis of Current Man...

Step 1: Indication Development and Literature Review.................................................................1608 Step 2: Expert Panel Rating.................................1609 Step 3: Panel Meeting..........................................1609 Step 4: Rating Tabulation ....................................1610 Interpretation of Appropriateness Scores .................1610 Appropriaten...

the aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of conners rating scale in assessing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) in primary school bos in different demographic areas of tehran city. the study consisted of an experimental group (n=36) comprising of subjects satisfying dsm-iii-r criteria for adha. these subjects were drawn from different psychiatric clinics. the norm...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, evaluation of suppliers is the prime function of the purchasing department of the organization. It is due to the fact that high percentage of the material cost for manufacturing of a product is involved. Identification of decision criteria and methods for supplier evaluation are appearing to be the important research area in the literature. In...