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The Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis–Specific Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions: Results of a Consensus Process

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Ambulatory care–sensitive conditions (ACSCs) serve as indicators of access, quality, and performance of the health system. This study aimed to determine rheumatoid arthritis (RA)‐specific ACSCs for use in the evaluation of care system access and quality.
Kara Irwin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)‐based Cartilage Segmentation Predicting Knee Replacement

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective For cartilage morphology to serve as a scalable endpoint in clinical trials, analyses should be performed automatically without human interaction. To clinically validate artificial intelligence (AI)‐based analysis, we studied cartilage loss from MRI prior to knee replacement.
Felix Eckstein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Visual Scoring: Computational Computed Tomography Analysis for High‐Resolution Computed Tomography–Based Quantification of Interstitial Lung Disease in Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with inflammatory rheumatic disorders (IRDs). High‐resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is widely considered the gold standard for the noninvasive assessment of ILD; however, its interpretation is constrained by substantial interobserver variability and the ...
Alexander Pfeil   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facial Cosmetic Therapy Use Among Patients With Systemic Sclerosis: An Australian Cohort Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is associated with numerous facial manifestations for which patients may engage in cosmetic therapies. It is unclear how patients with SSc use these therapies. This study sought to characterize patient engagement and experiences with cosmetic therapies for SSc‐related and non‐SSc–related facial changes.
Zachary Warren   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement in nursing education*

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1979
The objectives for this paper are fourfold. Evaluation is put into perspective, including measurement and assessment, in relation to the curriculum as a whole. The elements included in the evaluation of educational programmes are outlined. The process of evaluation is related to learning abilities in the cognitive, affective, psychomotor and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Measures of interprofessional education and collaboration

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2010
Healthcare and social services professionals are being called to engage in interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in order to provide efficient and effective care to clients and patients. As such, it is important to conduct research that contributes to evaluation of collaborative practice.
Jennifer, Thannhauser   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Measuring Quality in Higher Education

Quality in Higher Education, 1996
Abstract The service quality literature demonstrates that when seeking to design tools that measure quality, it is important not to overlook fundamental questions such as ‘What is service quality?’, ‘What do the various instruments designed to measure service quality actually measure?’, ‘Do these instruments use the best questions?’ and ‘What is the ...
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Measurement in Abstinence Education

Evaluation & the Health Professions, 2003
The purpose of this article is to identify, assess, and offer solutions to common measurement errors found in sexual abstinence education evaluation. A critical review of the methodology of adolescent sexuality research was performed. “Gold standards” of their measurement strategy were derived and applied against 14 selected studies.
Thomas E, Smith   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Measuring and managing educational performance

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003
Performance measures have come to play a central role in the management of the education sector. This paper identifies a number of desirable properties for educational performance measures, whose breach is likely to result in sub-optimal patterns of educational outcomes and resource management.
openaire   +4 more sources

Measuring flow in programming education

2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2011
Programming is a problematic subject to learn due to various factors that impact teaching, learning, and the environment. This research is concerned with creating a suitable measurement which could be used to compare flow levels achieved between weak and strong novice students, where flow is a state of mind where people are so involved in an activity ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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