OBJECTIVES The weight bearing lunge test is increasing being used by health care clinicians who treat lower limb and foot pathology. This measure is commonly established accurately and reliably with the use of expensive equipment. This study aims to compare the digital inclinometer with a free app, TiltMeter on an Apple iPhone. DESIGN This was an intra-rater and inter-rater reliability study....

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Flexible nasolaryngoscopy is an essential skill for otolaryngology trainees to develop, but there is a lack of standardized training for this procedure. The aim of this study was to assess whether using training on a realistic human mannequin together with structured video feedback improved trainees' performance at flexible nasolaryngoscopy. STUDY DESIGN Three-armed, sin...

Background: People with dementia have a yearly risk of falling 60 to 80 percent. Therefore, walker is often recommended. However, the use in people associated threefold increased odds falls compared their healthy peers. Better advice and training could reduce fall risk. tool assess functional walking skills needed. The SUMAC was developed fill this gap. So far, there no Dutch instrument ...

This study assessed the intra and inter-rater reliability of a modified weight-bearing lunge measure of ankle dorsiflexion range of movement. Thirteen healthy subjects were recruited. Each subject performed 3 repetitions of the lunging method with one rater and 3 more repetitions with a second rater within 30 min. The process was repeated within 3 h. Intra-rater reliability results indicated ex...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a multisource feedback questionnaire, SPRAT (Sheffield peer review assessment tool), is a feasible and reliable assessment method to inform the record of in-training assessment for paediatric senior house officers and specialist registrars. DESIGN Trainees' clinical performance was evaluated using SPRAT sent to clinical colleagues of their choosing. Responses we...

BACKGROUND Health educators need rigorously developed instruments to evaluate cognitive skills relating to evidence based practice (EBP). Previous EBP evaluation instruments have focused on the acquisition and appraisal of the evidence and are largely based in the medical profession. The aim of this study was to develop and validate an EBP evaluation instrument to assess EBP cognitive skills fo...

In automated essay scoring (AES), scores are automatically assigned to essays as an alternative grading by humans. Traditional AES typically relies on handcrafted features, whereas recent studies have proposed models based deep neural networks obviate the need for feature engineering. Those generally require training a large dataset of graded essays. However, grades in such known be biased owin...