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Phantom study of a self-shielded X-ray bone age assessment instrument against scattered radiation in children
Hand-wrist radiography is the most common and accurate method for evaluating children’s bone age. To reduce the scattered radiation of radiosensitive...
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The Advanced Certifying Exam Simulation-Pro assessment instrument: evaluating surgical trainee examsmanship in virtual oral exams
PurposeIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many educational activities in general surgery residency have shifted to a virtual environment,...
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Global assessment of surgical skills (GASS): validation of a new instrument to measure global technical safety in surgical procedures
BackgroundBroad implementation of the American Board of Surgery’s entrustable professional activities initiative will require assessment instruments...
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Risk assessment of healthcare workers’ exposure to physical load in relation to patient handling and movement: a feasibility study of the instrument TilThermometer
BackgroundWork-related musculoskeletal disorders are common among healthcare workers (HCWs) but might be prevented by risk assessment and further...
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Acceptability and usefulness of the EORTC ‘Write In three Symptoms/Problems’ (WISP): a brief open-ended instrument for symptom assessment in cancer patients
BackgroundThe use of open-ended questions supplementing static questionnaires with closed questions may facilitate the recognition of symptoms and...
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The Malay version of the caregiver assessment of function and upset instrument (Malay-CAFU): a translation and validation study among informal stroke caregivers
BackgroundPost-stroke complications affect the informal caregivers equally as the stroke survivors, especially those who have a moderate to worst...
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Validity and reliability of an instrument evaluating the performance of intelligent chatbot: the Artificial Intelligence Performance Instrument (AIPI)
ObjectivesTo evaluate the reliability and validity of the Artificial Intelligence Performance Instrument (AIPI).
MethodsMedical records of patients...
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Classifying home care clients’ risk of unplanned hospitalization with the resident assessment instrument
PurposeTo identify predictive case finding tools for classifying the risk of unplanned hospitalization among home care clients utilizing the Resident...
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Comparative Psychometric Performance of Common Generic Paediatric Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument Descriptive Systems: Results from the Australian Paediatric Multi-Instrument Comparison Study
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to compare the psychometric performance of common generic paediatric health-related quality-of-life instrument...
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Mixed methods instrument validation: Evaluation procedures for practitioners developed from the validation of the Swiss Instrument for Evaluating Interprofessional Collaboration
BackgroundQuantitative and qualitative procedures are necessary components of instrument development and assessment. However, validation studies...
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Development of an Instrument for the Assessment of Health-Related Multi-sectoral Resource Use in Europe: The PECUNIA RUM
BackgroundMeasuring objective resource-use quantities is important for generating valid cost estimates in economic evaluations. In the absence of...
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25 Years of the GERD-HRQL symptom severity instrument: an assessment of published applications
BackgroundThe GERD-HRQL symptom severity instrument was developed and published 25 years ago. This seems like an apropos time to review how the...
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Accuracy of a self-reported Measure in Psychological Assessment when the Instrument is self-administered by the Patient or when Administrated by the Clinician
BackgroundSelf-reported measures are the questionnaire-based instrument that are routinely used in the clinical scenario to assess psychological...
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Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol
Recently, the VALENF instrument, Nursing Assessment by its acronym in Spanish, was developed as a meta-tool composed of only seven items with a more...
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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the risk assessment instrument TilThermometer for a Swedish version – patient handling in the healthcare sector
BackgroundWork-related musculoskeletal disorders are common in the healthcare sector due to exposure of physical demanding work tasks. Risk...
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Valuing the Quality-of-Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) Instrument for Quality Assessment and Economic Evaluation
ObjectiveThis paper reports on the valuation of the classification system for the Quality-of-Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) instrument using a...
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Development of the core of an ICF-based instrument for the assessment of work capacity and guidance in return to work of employees on sick leave: a multidisciplinary modified Delphi study
BackgroundSeveral occupational health disciplines are involved in return to work guidance, implying that good interdisciplinary collaboration is...
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Development and psychometric assessment an instrument for investigating Women’s attitude toward home safety
BackgroundApproximately half of the Iranian population are women, and they play a vital role in the home. The women’s attitude can play a critical...
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Screening of voice and vocal tract changes in professional wind instrument players
PurposePlaying wind instruments is a strenuous task on the larynx, predisposing players to voice disorders. This study aims to evaluate potential...
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Surgical phase and instrument recognition: how to identify appropriate dataset splits
PurposeMachine learning approaches can only be reliably evaluated if training, validation, and test data splits are representative and not affected...
