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Critical Synthesis Package: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Peer Assessment

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
This Critical Synthesis Package contains: (1) a Critical Analysis of the psychometric properties and the application to health science education of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Peer Assessment, and (2) a copy of the ABIM Peer Assessment
Matt J. Rustici
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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Modified Tardieu Scale for muscle tone assessment among patients with spinal cord injury

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2021
Background: Assessment of muscle tone is of great importance for evaluating people with spinal injuries. Objective: To translate and adapt the Modified Tardieu Scale (MTS) to Brazilian Portuguese and validate its use for evaluating patients with spinal ...
Patrícia Lima do Amaral Santos, Roberta Caveiro Gaspar, Natália Padula, Daniela Melo Almeida, Mariana Callil Voos   +4 more
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The Patient Presentation Rating Tool for Oral Case Presentations

MedEdPORTAL, 2014
Introduction Composing and delivering effective oral case presentations is an important skill for medical students and residents to learn, but the large variety of patients and presenting problems makes teaching and evaluating this skill complex.
Linda Lewin, Sandy Dolan, Carol Carraccio   +2 more
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FORMULATION AND EVALUATION STUDIES OF VALACYCLOVIR TOPICAL GEL FOR ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, 2022
The present work describes a study on Formulation and Evaluation studies of Valacyclovir topical gels for Antiviral activity. Valacyclovir is a broad spectrum antiviral agent against Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella Zoster Virus, which is specific to viral-infected cells with low toxicity and which is less toxic than earlier generation of antiviral ...
Nilesh Parmar, Ramakant Sharma, Jeevan Patel, Shabnam Khan, Rakesh Patel   +4 more
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Quality indices for topic model selection and evaluation: a literature review and case study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2023
AbstractBackgroundTopic models are a class of unsupervised machine learning models, which facilitate summarization, browsing and retrieval from large unstructured document collections. This study reviews several methods for assessing the quality of unsupervised topic models estimated using non-negative matrix factorization.
Christopher Meaney, Therese A. Stukel, Peter C. Austin, Rahim Moineddin, Michelle Greiver, Michael D. Escobar   +5 more
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A map of Brazilian dental research in the last decade

Brazilian Oral Research, 2011
The aim of the present study was to analyze dental research trends in Brazil over the past nine years. All abstracts presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Dental Research in 2009 (n = 2648) were classified based on field of ...
Rafaela Scariot, Amanda Finger Stadler, Cristiane Meira Assunção, Tatiana Pegoretti Pintarelli, Fernanda de Morais Ferreira   +4 more
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The Sensitive General Surgery Resident: Three “Difficult Conversation” Objective Structured Clinical Examinations

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has proven to be a reliable and valid modality to assess the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Core Competencies of Interpersonal and Communication Skills as well as the ...
John Falcone, Rene Claxton, Gary Marshall   +2 more
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Human-Agent Dialogues on Health Topics - An Evaluation Study

, 2015
A common conversation between an older adult and a nurse about health-related issues includes topics such as troubles with sleep, reasons for walking around nighttime, pain conditions, etc.
Jayalakshmi Baskar, Helena Lindgren
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Evaluation of three topical anaesthetic agents against pain : A clinical study

Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2006
To compare pain responses of children during local anaesthetic infiltration at bilateral buccal sites prepared with topical application of EMLA 5% cream, benzocaine 18% gel or lignocaine 5% ointment and also to find out the rapidity of onset of action of these agents.60 healthy children aged 6 to 12 years old, received bilateral buccal infiltration ...
Nayak R, Sudha P
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Potential combination topical therapy of anal fissure: development, evaluation, and clinical study† [PDF]

Drug Delivery, 2018
To treat anal fissure, internal anal sphincterotomy may be associated with surgical risks and incidence of incontinence. Botulinum toxin injection into the anal sphincter is invasive and expensive. Headache and hypotension hindered topical treatment with glyceryl trinitrate.
Amgad E. Salem, Elham A. Mohamed, Hosam M. Elghadban, Galal M. Abdelghani   +3 more
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