... kathy.wyrwich@unitedbiosource.com Abstract A critique of Hankins, M: How discriminating are discriminative instruments? " Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:36 As a PhD student in the 1990s, one of my favorite places on ... written and stored in the bowels of the Lewis Annex to applications featured in the center of all brightly-lit health science libraries, and, indeed, informing and changing the practice of health care. Unfortunately, ... classifications of health instruments by their pur- poses: predictive, discriminative and evaluative [2]. In 1995, Guyatt further addressed and elucidated the proper- ties of discriminative instruments, ...
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... with which discriminations are made. Both Norman and Wyrwich raise the interesting issue of what constitutes a meaningful discrimination, and whether Delta is an index of such discriminations. This happens ... to incorporate these elements into the computation of a coefficient of discrimination if required. As Thurlow [4] pointed out, the only discrimina- tions worth considering are valid discriminations. ... [6], in which the dichotomous scoring method of the GHQ-12 was found to be less discriminating than the Likert scoring method, were 'well expected'. This again suggests that an index of...
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... their claims relating to the latter, professed commitment to employee well-being, rooted in the notion of professionalism, served organizational interests in maintaining conducive intra-organizational ... (2006) points out that India’s numerous advantages have resulted in a steady increase in the scale and depth of existing service lines and in the addition of newer vertical-specifi c and emerging, ... Industry in India T he call centre industry in India is located within the country’s emerging ITES–BPO sector whose major constituent is global off-shoring operations (henceforth also termed offshoring...
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... starting to erode the health of the banking system, as reflected by an increasing trend in non-performing loans. It was in this context that average and marginal RRs where introduced to contain ... take advantage of the information contained in the individual times series of individual countries as well as in the cross-country differences of credit and business cycles in countries that ... effectiveness of macroprudential instruments in reducing systemic risk. Their results—using event case and dynamic panel regressions—suggest that most of these instruments are effective in reducing the...
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... disincentives. It included 47 studies of consumer incentives for preventive care, including 7 pertaining to obesity and weight loss (all of which are included in this synthesis.) Of all of the ... evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of foods high in saturated ... summarizing the available evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of...
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A study on the sounds of vowels and consonants in English
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... numerous findings of concern. One is the relatively high levels of discordance, with the highest discordance rates occurring in three of the items considered among the most important: “training opportunit ... performance in many developing countries [13,14], and in India in particular. Thepurposeofthisstudyistoidentifyimportant aspects of health workers’ job satisfaction and motiva- tion in different settings ... to motivation of doctors and nurses in both public and pri- vate sectors in the two states. The study was part of a larger research program conducted by Indian institu- tions to examine options for India’s...
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