Measuring Information Management at MCI Simulation: Instruments Evaluation and Comparison

Evaluation of health information requirement in management information System

Introduction: Considering the importance of information, providing the management with a reliable information system, can facilitate decision making regarding planning, organizing and controlling. This study aimed to analyze and evaluate information needs of managers at vice - chancellorship for treatment in Iranian medical science universities. Methods: This cross-sectional study was car...

Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment: Comparison of “MCI Specific” Screening Instruments

BACKGROUND Sensitive and specific instruments are required to screen for cognitive impairment (CI) in busy clinical practice. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is widely validated but few studies compare it to tests designed specifically to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI). OBJECTIVE Comparison of two "MCI specific" screens: the Quick Mild Cognitive Impairment screen (Qmci) and M...

Measuring agreement between healthcare survey instruments using mutual information

BACKGROUND Healthcare researchers often use multiple healthcare survey instruments to examine a particular patient symptom. The use of multiple instruments can pose some interesting research questions, such as whether the outcomes produced by the different instruments are in agreement. We tackle this problem using information theory, focusing on mutual information to compare outcomes from multi...

Five Instruments for Measuring Tree Height: An Evaluation

Five instruments were tested for reliability in measuring tree heights under realistic conditions. Four linear models were used to determine if tree height can be measured unbiasedly over all tree sizes and if any of the instruments were more efficient in estimating tree height. The laser height finder was the only instrument o produce unbiased estimates of the true height for all four linear m...

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