BACKGROUND Valid, reliable and responsive Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) questionnaires for young to middle-aged, physically active individuals with hip and groin pain are lacking. OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a new PRO in accordance with the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) recommendations for use in young to middle-aged, physically ...

Today software is core part of modern automobiles. The amount, complexity and importance of software components within Electrical/Electronics (E/E) systems of modern cars is only increasing with time. Several automotive functions carrying software provide or interact with safety critical systems such as systems steering and braking and thus assuring functional safety for such systems is of high...

A commercial aflatoxin detection ELISA kit, "RIDASCREEN(®) FAST Aflatoxin", was validated with corn samples naturally contaminated with aflatoxin and non-contaminated reference corn samples according to the Japanese Notification Method ShokuAnHatsu 0816-7. The trueness, intra-laboratory repeatability, intermediate precision, limit of detection and limit of quantitation were found to be 91%, 10%...

The objective of this study was to validate the Nursing Outcomes (NO) from the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) for the two Nursing Diagnoses (ND) most frequent in hospitalized surgical, clinical and critical patients. The content validation of the REs was performed adapting the Fehring Model. The sample consisted of 12 expert nurses. The instrument for data collection consisted of the NOs...

OBJECTIVES To validate and accredit a set of three multiplex endpoint PCR assays, targeting the most important carbapenemase and minor extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) resistance genes, according to the international ISO 15189 particular requirements for the quality and competence of medical laboratories. METHODS Specific primers targeting ESBLs and carbapenemases were collected from the ...