BACKGROUND Adverse events are poor patient outcomes caused by medical care. Their identification requires the peer-review of poor outcomes, which may be unreliable. Combining physician ratings might improve the accuracy of adverse event classification. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the variation in peer-reviewer ratings of adverse outcomes; determine the impact of this variation on estimates of revie...

Peer review (e.g., grading assignments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), academic paper review) is an effective and scalable method to evaluate the products (e.g., assignments, papers) of a large number of agents when the number of reviewing experts (e.g., teaching assistants, editors) is limited. Peer review poses two key challenges: 1) identifying the reviewers intrinsic capabilities (i...

* I wish to acknowledge the invaluable help of the students who worked on this project – most notably Nadia Sorkhabi who trained the raters and together with Ellen Middaugh developed the Manual for the Parent Disciplinary Rating Scale, and Sally Lim for her important contribution to data coding and management. Dr. Elizabeth Owens conducted the data analyses and co-authors the report of this stu...

The crosssectional study was carried out to determine the degree of improvement in malocclusion after orthodontic treatment provided at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, and to find out which malocclusion showed a marked reduction in PAR score after orthodontic treatment. It was conducted from March 2007 to April, 2007. This study evaluated the last 50 consecutively finished ort...

Publication information Journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Biomembranes Volume: 1858 Issue number: 10 ISSN (Print): 0005-2736 Ratings: Scopus rating (2016): SJR 1.511 SNIP 1.101 CiteScore 3.55 Scopus rating (2015): SJR 1.782 SNIP 1.142 CiteScore 3.8 Scopus rating (2014): SJR 1.869 SNIP 1.09 CiteScore 3.64 Scopus rating (2013): SJR 1.592 SNIP 0.975 CiteScore 3.45 Scopus rating (2012): SJR 1...

Extant literature asserted that peer assessments improved learning but only a few studies had addressed the student rating consistency issue and not had evaluated this within a Learning Management System (LMS). The researcher explored how to conduct peer assessments in Moodle LMS for a hybrid-mode business course (N=90 students) which required 270 (25-page) reports. Rater agreement statistical ...

This paper presents early results from using an asynchronous web-based discussion forum coupled with an integrated student peer rating system as one component of an Information Technology course taught in large section format. The potential for asynchronous discussions to enhance student participation and learner outcomes has previously been established (Anderson & Elloumi, 2004, Corich et al.,...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks provide a significant solution for file sharing among peers connected to Internet. It is fast and completely decentralised system with robustness. But due to absence of a server documents on a P2P network are not rated which makes it difficult for a peer to obtain precise information in result of a query. In past, some researchers tried to attach ratings to the peers...