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A Validated Hand Grading Scale

Dermatologic Surgery, 2008
Following the popularity of facial cosmetic procedures to reverse the signs of aging, cosmetic procedures that rejuvenate the hand are being sought. Irregular surface pigmentation, prominence of superficial veins and tendons, thinning of the dermis, and loss of subcutaneous fat typically characterize aging of the hand.To develop the Hand Grading Scale ...
Alastair, Carruthers, Jean, Carruthers, Bhushan, Hardas, Mandeep, Kaur, Roman, Goertelmeyer, Derek, Jones, Berthold, Rzany, Joel, Cohen, Martina, Kerscher, Timothy Corcoran, Flynn, Corey, Maas, Gerhard, Sattler, Alexander, Gebauer, Rainer, Pooth, Kathleen, McClure, Ulli, Simone-Korbel, Larry, Buchner   +16 more
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Validation of a Decision Regret Scale

Medical Decision Making, 2003
Background. As patients become more involved in health care decisions, there may be greater opportunity for decision regret. The authors could not find a validated, reliable tool for measuring regret after health care decisions. Methods. A5- item scale was administered to 4 patient groups making different health care decisions. Convergent validity was
Jamie C, Brehaut, Annette M, O'Connor, Timothy J, Wood, Thomas F, Hack, Laura, Siminoff, Elisa, Gordon, Deb, Feldman-Stewart   +6 more
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Validation of the Urgency Perception Scale

BJU International, 2005
OBJECTIVE To ascertain the validity and responsiveness of the Urgency Perception Scale (UPS) as an indicator of perceived urinary urgency. PATIENTS AND METHODS The UPS was developed to assess perceived urinary urgency in clinical ...
Linda, Cardozo, Karin S, Coyne, Eboo, Versi   +2 more
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Validation of a Quantitative Hematuria Scale

Urology
To develop a quantitative hematuria scale that assigns specific blood concentration percentages to commonly used descriptors such as "clear," "mild," "moderate," and "severe" in order to standardize hematuria severity assessments during continuous bladder irrigation and reduce reliance on subjective visual evaluations.Samples of bovine blood with ...
Sahana Prasanna, Anushka Agrawal, Archit Chabbi, Kevin Li, Richard Chan, Robert Heeter, Sagar Patel, Raymond Yong, Chester Koh   +8 more
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Development and Validation of the LEADS Scale

Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 2018
LEADS in a Caring Environment has been adopted as the primary leadership framework by the Canadian Health Leadership Network. This study developed and validated a 20-item behaviourally anchored rating scale to assess the twenty LEADS capabilities. Canadian healthcare employees and support staff (N = 156) were asked to rate their managers using the ...
Stephanie, Gilbert, E Kevin, Kelloway
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The Construct Validity of a Scale of Acquiescence

British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1966
Three independent measures of acquiescence response set, Cattell's 16 PF and the Couch and Keniston short acquiescence scale, OAS(s), were administered to 263 United States airmen. All variables except the OAS(s) were intercorrelated and factored. Estimated correlations were obtained between the factors and the OAS(s) total score and items.
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[Development and validation of a dependence scale].

Professioni infermieristiche, 2004
Two dimensions are identifiable in nursing hospital caring: a) nurse activities based on nurse critical evaluation, carried-out in order to achieve patients highest independence; b) nurses activities implementing routinely care and medical prescriptions.
CONZUT L, PECILE A, ZANOTTI, RENZO
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Validity of the Sklar Aphasia Scale

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1977
A German version of the Sklar Aphasia Scale (SAS) was administered to groups of fluent aphasics, nonfluent aphasics, and three control groups (brain-damaged patients without aphasia, schizophrenics, and normal subjects). The SAS discriminated fluent and nonfluent aphasics from schizophrenic, brain-damaged, and normal control subjects with a high level ...
R, Cohen, D, Engel, S, Kelter, G, List, H, Strohner   +4 more
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Cross-Validation of the Booth Scale

Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1966
Abstract A study was conducted to attempt a cross-validation of the Booth Scale as a measure of competitive spirit. Six football teams and a non-athlete group failed to demonstrate any differences either on mean scale scores or on the frequency of good and poor scale-rated competitors. Item analysis likewise produced little evidence in support of cross-
W, Kroll, K H, Petersen
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Revision and Validation of the TWWA Scales

International Journal of the Addictions, 1980
A 40 true-false item questionnaire was finalized by revising and validating the original TWWA scales reported by Lin and Dickinson. This newly developed questionnaire consists of two scales measuring the degree of chemical abuse and the level of community functioning.
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