Is learning for assessment an inevitable outcome of assessment for learning? We plan to investigate on this – by showing the effects of traditional continuous assessment modes we have implemented, and inviting student opinions on an e-assessment proposal which was virtually tested in a university setup. Student’s perceptions are checked in the case of traditional continuous assessment technique...

OEHHA is proposing to replace the Toxicity Equivalency Factors (TEF), which were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1997, with the more recent TEF values developed by the WHO in 2005. We agree with and support this revision. As noted correctly by OEHHA, the TEF methodology has evolved and improved over the years as additional toxicological data became available. The adoption of...

Background: Malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients is common and often unrecognized. Undernourished elderly tend to have longer periods of illness, longer hospital stay, higher rate of infections, delayed wound healing, reduced appetite and increased mortality rates. Nutrition screening is the first step in identifying individuals at nutritional risk and with malnutrition. ‘Mini Nutritio...

CONTEXT There is a need for reliable clinical assessment tools that can be used to identify individuals who may be at risk for injury. The Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) is a reliable and valid clinical assessment tool that was developed to identify individuals at risk for lower extremity injuries. One limitation of this tool is that it cannot be assessed in real time and requires the use ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to estimate the incidence of positional plagiocephaly in infants 7 to 12 weeks of age who attend the 2-month well-child clinic in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. METHODS A prospective cohort design was used to recruit 440 healthy full-term infants (born at ≥37 weeks of gestation) who presented at 2-month well-child clinics for public health nursing services...

OBJECTIVE To report and evaluate a new Vision Impairment Screening Assessment (VISA) tool intended for use by the stroke team to improve identification of visual impairment in stroke survivors. DESIGN Prospective case cohort comparative study. SETTING Stroke units at two secondary care hospitals and one tertiary centre. PARTICIPANTS 116 stroke survivors were screened, 62 by naïve and 54 b...

Objectives: This paper describes the development of an actuarial risk assessment instrument (the Intimate Partner Physical Injury-Risk Assessment Tool; IPPI-RAT) designed to be used by military providers to assess the likelihood that an individual who has had an alleged incident of intimate partner violence (IPV) will have a subsequent incident resulting in a physical injury to the victim. Meth...

BACKGROUND Notwithstanding its value, there are challenges and limitations to implementing a dysphagia screening tool from a developed contexts in a developing context. The need for a reliable and valid screening tool for dysphagia that considers context, systemic rules and resources was identified to prevent further medical compromise, optimise dysphagia prognosis and ultimately hasten patient...

BACKGROUND We previously proposed the Predictive Index for Osteoporosis as a new index to identify men who require bone mineral density measurement. However, the previous study had limitations such as a single-center design and small sample size. Here, we evaluated the usefulness of the Predictive Index for Osteoporosis using the nationally representative data of the Korea National Health and N...

Methods Within the EUNOMIA-study, N = 2,586 involuntarily admitted patients and N = 830 voluntarily admitted patients who felt coerced at admission were recruited across 13 sites in 12 European countries. Within the first ten days, 4 weeks, and 3 months after admission, patients were assessed on several variables including psychopathology (BPRS), level of functioning (GAF), QoL (MANSA), and sat...