Make a question explicit enough to examine.
CCI develops working instruments when doing so helps expose assumptions, variables or decisions. Creating an instrument does not establish that it is valid.
Instrument maturity
CONCEPT → WORKING DRAFT → FIELD TEST → REVISED → VALIDATED. Movement is not automatic or necessarily linear. An instrument may remain a draft, return to an earlier stage, be replaced by an existing method, or be retired.
Clinical Capacity State Assessment
What is the present state of available clinical capability relative to the work?
Concept / Working DevelopmentExpansion Threshold Decision Matrix
When does additional meaningful clinical demand justify expansion of capability?
Concept / Working DevelopmentMarginal Demand Absorption Assessment
Where does the next increment of meaningful clinical work go before formal capacity is added?
Concept / Prior Art Under ReviewCapability Requirement
What amount and characteristics of professional capability does the work require?
Concept / Adaptation Under ReviewDelivery Constraints / Architecture Fit
Which delivery arrangements can satisfy the requirement under real clinical and operational constraints?
Working QuestionFractional Capacity Titration Protocol
If capability can be supplied in adjustable increments, what evidence should cause it to be maintained, increased, decreased or replaced?
ConceptExisting methods come first
Instrument development should stop when an existing method already solves the problem adequately. Publication here means a tool is useful enough to expose to examination—not that it is validated, generally applicable or superior.
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