BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to assess the validity of a screening question for head tremor in essential tremor (ET). There are no published data on this topic, and the knowledge will guide future epidemiological investigations of this disorder. METHODS These analyses utilized four distinct patient samples: a population-based study in northern Manhattan, a study of the environmental ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE A multisite study was conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 2-question alcohol screen within pediatric emergency departments (PEDs). METHODS Participants (N = 4838) included 12- to 17-year-old subjects treated in 1 of the 16 participating PEDs across the United States. A criterion assessmen...

The perfusion education program at The Ohio State University uses a step exam to rank students and identify incompetent students in regard to the program learning objectives. The step exam determines student progress from the didactic to the clinical phase. Each student must pass the competency step exam to gain entry to the clinical rotations. The development, use, and results of the step exam...

introduction: prevention and control of cross infections for the personnel of dental offices and clinics are a critical issue in dental practice. in this study, a standardized questionnaire was developed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the oral health-care workers in tehran university dental school regarding the blood-transmitted diseases and its validity and reliability were ...

INTRODUCTION The application of cognitive load theory to workplace-based activities such as patient handovers is hindered by the absence of a measure of the different load types. This exploratory study tests a method for measuring cognitive load during handovers. METHODS The authors developed the Cognitive Load Inventory for Handoffs (CLI4H) with items for intrinsic, extraneous, and germane l...

INTRODUCTION Feedback on patient satisfaction (PS) as a means to monitor and improve performance in patient communication is lacking in residency training. A physician's promotion, compensation and job satisfaction may be impacted by his individual PS scores, once he is in practice. Many communication and satisfaction surveys exist but none focus on the emergency department setting for educatio...

The N-back task requires participants to decide whether each stimulus in a sequence matches the one that appeared n items ago. Although N-back has become a standard "executive" working memory (WM) measure in cognitive neuroscience, it has been subjected to few behavioral tests of construct validity. A combined experimental- correlational study tested the attention-control demands of verbal 2- a...

"'...even though the assumptions of a model may not literally be exact and complete representation of reality, i f they are realistic enough for the purposes of our analysis, we may be able to draw conclusions which can be shown to apply to the world.'" Kalman J. Cohen and Richard M. Cyert (1965) Computational models are widely applied to address fundamental and practical issues in organization...