Incidence of urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women treated with raloxifene or estrogen.

Objective: Determine the effect of raloxifene or estrogen, as compared with placebo, on the reporting of urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women participating in an osteoporosis prevention trial.

Design: The current analysis is based on adverse event data that were collected as part of a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial designed to assess the efficacy and safety of raloxifene for osteoporosis prevention in postmenopausal women. Women were 40 to 60 years of age at study entry and had a prior hysterectomy.

Reliability of and correlation between the respiratory therapist written registry and clinical simulation self-assessment examinations.

Study Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of two respiratory therapy self-assessment examinations: the written registry examination (WR), and the clinical simulation examination (CSE). We then used reliability coefficients to test the true correlation between the WR and CSE by employing the Spearman-Brown formula to attenuate for unreliability.

Design: This was a nonexperimental correlational study.