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Prevalence of childhood disability in a southern Indian city: independent effect of small differences in social status.

International journal of epidemiology

Natale JE, Joseph JG, Bergen R, Thulasiraj RD, Rahmathullah L.
PMID: 1428494
Int J Epidemiol. 1992 Apr;21(2):367-72. doi: 10.1093/ije/21.2.367.

A random sample of mothers living in two neighbourhoods of a southern Indian city were interviewed in order to determine the prevalence of serious disability in children 2-9 years old. These areas were selected because residents constitute either the...

Evaluating agreement between two methods for measuring the same quantity: a response.

Computers in biology and medicine

Lee J.
PMID: 1424582
Comput Biol Med. 1992 Sep;22(5):369-71. doi: 10.1016/0010-4825(92)90025-i.

A method comparison study is typically concerned with evaluating the agreement between a "new" method against an "established" method for measuring the same quantity. Various statistical indices have been advocated for measuring the extent to which two methods give...

A review of the validity and accuracy of self-assessments in health professions training.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Gordon MJ.
PMID: 1750956
Acad Med. 1991 Dec;66(12):762-9. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199112000-00012.

Valid self-assessment is fundamental to continuing professional competence but is seldom explicitly taught in health professions training. This review analyzed 18 scholarly articles published between January 1970 and February 1990 (14 articles regarding health professions trainees, and four concerning...

An evaluation of validity, reliability, and readability of the Critical Care Family Needs Inventory.

Heart & lung : the journal of critical care

Harrington L.
PMID: 1544817
Heart Lung. 1992 Mar;21(2):199-200.

No abstract available.

Response to letter on quality of life.

ANNA journal

Molzahn AE.
PMID: 2025054
ANNA J. 1991 Apr;18(2):218.

No abstract available.

Measuring interrater reliability among multiple raters: an example of methods for nominal data.

Statistics in medicine

Posner KL, Sampson PD, Caplan RA, Ward RJ, Cheney FW.
PMID: 2244082
Stat Med. 1990 Sep;9(9):1103-15. doi: 10.1002/sim.4780090917.

This paper reviews and critiques various approaches to the measurement of reliability among multiple raters in the case of nominal data. We consider measurement of the overall reliability of a group of raters (using kappa-like statistics) as well as...

Laboratory findings: structure, validity and significance for medical cognitive processes.

European journal of clinical chemistry and clinical biochemistry : journal of the Forum of European Clinical Chemistry Societies

Büttner J.
PMID: 1954305
Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem. 1991 Aug;29(8):507-19.

Modern medicine employs laboratory findings to a great extent in medical cognitive and decision processes. As supposedly "hard" data, the value of such findings is frequently incorrectly assessed. So far, no comprehensive general theory of laboratory findings has been...

Listening to students: course evaluation as action research.

Nurse education today

Rolfe G.
PMID: 7968967
Nurse Educ Today. 1994 Jun;14(3):223-7. doi: 10.1016/0260-6917(94)90085-x.

Course evaluation is an important but often neglected aspect of the education process, usually carried out too late and in a cursory fashion. The writer argues that evaluation should play an important part in curriculum development, and outlines a...

[Clinical evaluation and the OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation)].

Curationis

van Aswegen EJ, Basson AA.
PMID: 8044870
Curationis. 1994 Feb;17(1):32-7.

Although clinical evaluation and examination is regarded as the basis of scientifically founded nursing, it is inherently a subjective process. This process is complicated by the variability of four inter-related systems, namely the evaluator, the clinical environment, the student...

Measuring health: guidelines for reliability assessment.

Family medicine

Main DS, Pace WD.
PMID: 2016016
Fam Med. 1991 Mar-Apr;23(3):227-30.

In the area of health measurement, few guidelines exist for the health professional interested in understanding the concept of reliability. Yet, often there is a need to construct, modify, or select a reliable instrument that will satisfy a particular...

[Development and evaluation of an instrument to assess the psychosocial environment].

Salud publica de Mexico

Mouriño Pérez R, Viniegra Velázquez L.
PMID: 2047931
Salud Publica Mex. 1991 Jan-Feb;33(1):38-48.

It is an instrument to explore the psico-social environment that carries out a thorough inventory of the elements in such environment, it groups them in general categories that, from the process of stress (taken as the point of the...

Demystifying research--developing critical skills.

Radiography today

Benwell M.
PMID: 2363810
Radiogr Today. 1990 Mar;56(634):26-8.

No abstract available.

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