OBJECTIVE The generic STarT Back 5-item screening tool (STarT-G) is used to manage chronic pain in the lower back and elsewhere. This study evaluated the validity of the Japanese version of this generic screening tool. MATERIALS AND METHODS Japanese participants between the ages of 20 and 64 years completed online surveys regarding pain. Survey reliability was assessed with internal consisten...

this study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of osce in evaluating the clinical skills of midwifery students at kashan university of medical sciences in 2014. this descriptive-correlational study was carried out on 23 senior midwifery students. the osce scores were calculated according to the structured objective checklists. content and criterion validity and reliability w...

background: in radiation therapy, water is the phantom material of choice, both for reference and for relative dosimetry measurements. solid phantoms, however, are more useful for routine measurements because they tend to be more robust and easier to set up than water phantoms. materials and methods: fluka input data cards have been arranged in sequential order. a simple cylindrical geometry wi...

higher in patients with obstructive MGD than in control subjects (P .001, P=.004, P=.001, P .001, P=.001, and P .001, respectively). Both the upper and lower tarsal conjunctival temperatures had a significant negative correlation with the ocular symptom score (R= 0.7325, P .001; R= 0.6356, P .001, respectively), eyelid margin score (R= 0.6126, P .001; R= 0.4707, P=.004, respectively), superfici...

Background: Diabetes is a prevalent chronic disease around the world. To evaluate risk of diabetes comprehensively, we developed a score model for the risk prediction with HDL-C as a protective factor. Methods: We extracted physical examination data of 2728 individuals. The data contain 18 demographic and clinical variables. To identify the statistical significant feature variables, the backwa...

A scoring system has been developed to grade the severity of acute systemic illness in babies under 6 months of age. Data were collected on 28 symptoms and 47 signs from 1007 babies with a spectrum of illness ranging from well to seriously ill. Ordinal regression analysis identified 19 symptoms and signs which in combination graded the severity of the illness most accurately. The coefficients w...