Using audiovisual vignettes to collect data remotely on complex clinical care: a practical insight

Using Smartphones to Collect Behavioral Data in Psychological Science: Opportunities, Practical Considerations, and Challenges.

Smartphones now offer the promise of collecting behavioral data unobtrusively, in situ, as it unfolds in the course of daily life. Data can be collected from the onboard sensors and other phone logs embedded in today's off-the-shelf smartphone devices. These data permit fine-grained, continuous collection of people's social interactions (e.g., speaking rates in conversation, size of social grou...

Practical Considerations for Designing a Remotely Distributed Data Acquisition System

Using Vignettes to Measure the Quality of Health Care

This paper outlines a research project that seeks to measure the quality of care, understand how quality of care varies by geographical location and sectors (private, public or Non-Governmental Organizations) and how (and whether) quality of care has an impact on health choices and outcomes. We discuss a measure of the quality of care, competence, which focuses on what doctors know, or, the max...

Using Clinical Vignettes to Evaluate VTE Protocol Adherence

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis is underutilized in hospitalized medical patients. Underutilization might occur as a result of resident practice variation incurred by using a complex risk assessment tool. OBJECTIVE To examine what impact repetitive exposure to an electronic point-based VTE risk assessment tool has on resident inter-rater reliability and protocol adherence....

Using Clinical Vignettes to Assess Quality of Care for Acute Respiratory Infections

Overprescribing of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) is common. Our objective was to develop and validate a vignette-based method to estimate clinician ARI antibiotic prescribing. We surveyed physicians (n = 78) and retail clinic clinicians (n = 109) between January and September 2013. We surveyed clinicians using a set of ARI vignettes and linked the responses to electronic h...