Purpose: Competency-based medical education relies on a strong program of assessment, and quality comments play a vital role in ensuring its success. The goal of this study is to determine the effect of the timeliness of assessment completion on the quality of the feedback.
Materials And Methods: Using the Quality of Assessment for Learning (QuAL) score 2478 assessments were evaluated. The assessments included those completed between July 2017 and December 2020 for 18 ophthalmology residents. Spearman correlation, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to assess variations in QuAL scores based on the timeliness of assessment completion.
Results: The timeliness of assessment completion ranged from 0 to 299 d with the mean time for completion being 3 d. As the delay increased, the QuAL score decreased. Feedback provided 4, 5, and 14 d post-encounter demonstrated statistically significant differences in the QuAL score. Additionally, there was a significant difference in the timeliness of feedback when there is no written comment.
Conclusions: This study demonstrates that the timeliness of assessment completion might have an effect on the quality of written feedback. Written feedback should be completed within 14 d of the encounter to optimize quantity and quality.
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BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
December 2024
Nivel, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Otterstraat 118, Utrecht, 3513 CR, The Netherlands.
Background: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, little was known about the spread of COVID-19 in Dutch nursing homes while older people were particularly at risk of severe symptoms. Therefore, attempts were made to develop a nationwide COVID-19 repository based on routinely recorded data in the electronic health records (EHRs) of nursing home residents. This study aims to describe the facilitators and barriers encountered during the development of the repository and the lessons learned regarding the reuse of EHR data for surveillance and research purposes.
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National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Hepatitis B remains a major public health issue in Vietnam. Mandatory reporting to the national electronic communicable disease surveillance system (eCDS) has been required since July 2016. We conducted an evaluation of the hepatitis B surveillance system in Ninh Binh, the province with the highest reported burden of hepatitis B in Northern Vietnam, between 2017 and 2022.
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December 2024
Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Objective: To develop a web-based tool for daily use by agility handlers to log rating of perceived exertion (RPE) for dogs as an aid in quantifying daily exercise and training load and to improve training and conditioning strategies.
Procedures: Focus group meetings with small groups of handlers were conducted via internet-based video conferencing using a semi-structured interview format. Meeting notes were coded for reflexive thematic analysis.
EBioMedicine
December 2024
Evidence-Based Public Health, Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany; Unité Epidémiologie et Recherche Clinique, Réseau de l'Arc, Saint-Imier, Switzerland.
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Methods: A systematic search from January 2010 to August 2023 in MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, BMJ Health & Care Informatics, and grey literature was performed.
Public Health
December 2024
School of Science and Engineering, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), Erbil City, Iraq. Electronic address:
Objectives: To develop a customized individual-based electronic immunization registry using the DHIS-2 platform and investigate its effectiveness combined with short message service reminders to decrease the child immunization dropout rate and improve vaccination timeliness in the Duhok Governorate.
Study Design: This was a quasi-experimental study.
Methods: The study included a preliminary pilot assessment examining deficiencies and requirements of the current paper-based immunization system, which informed the development of a tailored electronic immunization registry.
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