BACKGROUND Ulcerative colitis disease activity indices have not been formally validated. AIM To analise quantitatively the psychometric and performance validity of two non-endoscopic indices for ulcerative colitis, the Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index and the Seo Index. METHODS In 66 patients with ulcerative colitis, the measurement of disease activity was repeated with the two non-en...

CONTEXT Admissions interviews are unreliable and have poor predictive validity, yet are the sole measures of non-cognitive skills used by most medical school admissions departments. The low reliability may be due in part to variation in conditional reliability across the rating scale. OBJECTIVES To describe an empirically derived estimate of conditional reliability and use it to improve the p...

Objectives This study examined the validity of the principal diagnoses on discharge summaries and coding assessments. Methods Data were collected from the National Health Security Office (NHSO) of Thailand in 2015. In total, 118,971 medical records were audited. The sample was drawn from government hospitals and private hospitals covered by the Universal Coverage Scheme in Thailand. Hospitals...

The main rationale behind career grants is helping top talent to develop into the next generation leading scientists. Does career grant competition result in the selection of the best young talents? In this paper we investigate whether the selected applicants are indeed performing at the expected excellent level—something that is hardly investigated in the research literature. We investigate th...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of anemia is challenging in resource-poor settings due to inadequate laboratory resources. This study assessed the validity of the Tallquist haemoglobinometer in assessing anemia among pregnant women in Osogbo, Southwestern Nigeria. METHODS This was a cross - sectional study, in which 200 pregnant women of reproductive age were selected using multistage sapling method. A ...

A group of hands on child sexual abusers were diagnosed according to DSM-IVR criteria within a routinely performed risk assessment process in the Austrian prison system. Actuarials showed moderate to good predictive accuracy, and a combination of static and stable risk factors (Static-99 and Stable-2007) significantly improved the predictive power for sexual reoffense. In addition, the clinical...

background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

The goal of the present study was to test the validity of a Serbian version of the Perceived Stress Scale. The PSS was administered to 157 psychiatric outpatients, 165 adults from the non-clinical population, and 283 university students. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported a bifactor model of the PSS with one general factor and two specific factors reflecting perceived dis...

A topic of long-standing interest for university administrators and faculty is how to help rst-year college students succeed academically. On average, only 73.6% of college freshman return for their sophomore year (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems [NCHEMS], 2007). Although academic success in college requires some preexisting capabilities, these abilities do not always di...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder (INDT-ASD). DESIGN Diagnostic test evaluation by cross sectional design. SETTING Four tertiary pediatric neurology centers in Delhi and Thiruvanthapuram, India. METHODS Children aged 2-9 years were enrolled in the study. INDT-ASD and Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) were administered in a randomly de...