About 16% of children have developmental-behavioral disabilities but less than one-third of the children are detected by their health care providers, probably because of the use of informal milestones checklists. The goal of this study is to determine the reliability, validity, accuracy, and utility of a new tool, PEDS: Developmental Milestones (PEDS:DM). Data from a nationally representative s...

intervention tailoring; any intervention modifications throughout the study; and details of intervention fidelity assessment, monitoring, and level achieved. The TIDieR checklist will help improve the quality of intervention reporting more if it is used not only by study authors but also by journal editors, peer reviewers, ethics committees, and funding agencies. A copy of the checklist is avai...

On an individual requirement by requirement basis, quality requirements are typically much more important than functional requirements because they most strongly drive the architecture of software-intensive systems. Thus, it is how well the quality requirements are engineered and implemented that tends to determine the success or failure of mission critical systems. Yet, missing or poorly speci...