This was a prospective study conducted in the Postgraduate Department of Pathology, ASCOMS Sidhra, Jammu over a period of one year. The aims of this study were to study the various morphological types of anaemia in patients of rheumatoid arthritis and also to study the correlation between serum ferritin and bone marrow iron stores in these patients. It was inferred from the study that the normo...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to determine whether bedside visual estimates of left ventricular systolic function (LVSF) by emergency physicians (EP) would agree with quantitative measurement of LVSF by the modified Simpson's method (MSM), as recommended by the American Society of Echocardiography. METHODS After limited focused training, 2 trained EPs performed bedside echocard...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the impact of addressing item writing flaws, testing at low cognitive level and non-functioning distractors (< 5 % selection frequency) in multiple-choice assessment in preclinical medical education. METHOD Multiple-choice questions with too high or too low difficulty (difficulty index < 0.4 or > 0.8) and insufficient discriminatory ability (point-biserial c...

PURPOSE The reliability of test is determined by each items' characteristics. Item analysis is achieved by classical test theory and item response theory. The purpose of the study was to compare the discrimination indices with item response theory using the Rasch model. METHODS Thirty-one 4th-year medical school students participated in the clinical course written examination, which included ...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data colle...

results – “female gender (r = -.469, P < .001) and impaired balance (r = .495, P < .001).” Foot and ankle variables – “No significant gender differences (P <.05) were observed for age,” Variables associated with ankle instability – “Factors significantly associated with right FAI included female gender (r = -.469, P < .001),” “Factors associated with left FAI included female gender (r = .396, P...

The objective of this article is to demonstrate with examples that the two-sided tie correction does not work well. This was developed by Cureton so Kendall’s tau-type and Spearman’s rho-type formulas for rank-biserial correlation yield same result when ties are present. However, a based on bracket achieves desired goal, which demonstrated algebraically checked three examples. On one hand, 10-e...