BACKGROUND Written correspondence is one of the most important forms of communication between health care providers, yet there is little feedback provided to specialists. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility and satisfaction of a peer assessment program on consultation letters and to determine inter-rater reliability between family physicians and specialists. METHODS A...

this research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. participants were service industry employees in the service industries in yogyakarta, indonesia. a sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. the results indicated th...

Security metrics for software systems provide quantitative measurement for the degree of trustworthiness for software systems. This paper proposes a new approach to define software security metrics based on vulnerabilities included in the software systems and their impacts on software quality. We use the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), an industry standard for vulnerability and expo...

We investigated whether the rating obtained in the EuroNCAP test procedures correlates with injury protection to vehicle occupants in real crashes using data in the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) database from 1996 to 2005. Multivariate Poisson regression models were developed, using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score by body region as the dependent variable and the EuroNCAP sco...

OBJECTIVES To examine the reliability and validity of the Clock Drawing Test when used as a cognitive screening instrument for mild to moderate dementia, and to compare different scoring mechanisms. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of clock drawing performance using three published scoring methods (Shulman, Sunderland and Wolf-Klein). SETTING Hospital-based memory disorders clinic. PARTICIPA...

BACKGROUND A quality assessment tool for diagnostic accuracy studies, named QUADAS, has recently been developed. Although QUADAS has been used in several systematic reviews, it has not been formally validated. The objective was to evaluate the validity and usefulness of QUADAS. METHODS Three reviewers independently rated the quality of 30 studies using QUADAS. We assessed the proportion of ag...

Likert-type rating scales are susceptible to response styles, such as acquiescence and extremity scoring. Although it is widely acknowledged that response styles can seriously invalidate findings of cross-cultural research, their theoretical underpinnings are hardly explored. The current study analyzed domain-dependency and country differences in acquiescence and extremity scoring in a large da...

PURPOSE Katz et al have published a standardized scoring system of hand diagrams for carpal tunnel syndrome. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate an alternative scoring of the hand diagram for detection of carpal tunnel syndrome. METHODS In a prospective study of 1,107 workers, 221 workers with hand symptoms completed hand diagrams and electrodiagnostic testing for carpal ...

According to the facial feedback hypothesis (FFH) one's own expressions have a corresponding impact on subjective experience of emotion. Inspired by Strack, et al. [1] participants in present study hold wooden stick between teeth (forming smile) or lips sulky face) while rating humorous films. In contrast FFH it was found that people scoring low emotional empathy rated films as less funny happy...