ADC

HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER
[Advanced]

This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this link to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in ADC Online
Right arrow Add article to my folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003;88:A50
© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health


Abstracts

Paediatric education

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.


G143. AN OBJECTIVE, RELIABLE AND VALID SCORE TO MEASURE THE QUALITY OF A CLINICAL ASSESSMENT PLAN
P. Ramnarayan, G.C. Roberts, R. Kapoor1, C. Edwards, A. Tomlinson, J. Britto.

Imperial College London at St Mary’s, 1Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow

Background: Textual case simulations in examinations act as a proxy to measure real-life clinical decision-making. This concept hinges on objectively measuring the quality of subjects’ decisions. Many discrete measures have been used for this purpose, most of them relatively insensitive.

Aim: To develop and test the reliability and validity of a single objective continuous score to measure clinical assessment plan quality (comprising differential diagnosis, investigations and management items), generated as in real life without cues from multiple choice prompts.

Methods: First, a consultant panel independently produced "gold standard" clinical assessment plans for each case. Using a pre-assigned visual analogue scale (0–4 for diagnoses [judgements] and -2 to +2 for tests and management [actions]), "gold standard" decisions were marked as right hand anchors. From a master list of . . . [Full text of this article]







HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER
ARCH DIS CHILD FETAL NEONATAL ED ED PRACTICE
Terms and conditions relating to subscriptions purchased online  ¦  Website terms and conditions  ¦  Privacy policy
Copyright © 2003 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health